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Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by jjgreen on Saturday December 02, 2023 @11:56AM (#38499938)
I've used Sphinx quite a bit, the syntax is a bit fugly. For markdown's

   [text](url)
one uses

   `text <url>`_
...
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Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by kaycebasques on Saturday December 02, 2023 @12:22PM (#38500132)
irobinovitch just corrected me that the library that provides Markdown support for Sphinx supports the features [1] that I care about; have to dig into the details but if the feature parity is very good and you strongly prefer Markdown over reST then I would say... go for the Markdown!

[1] e.g. https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/v0.13.7/using/syntax.h...

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Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by jw_cook on Sunday December 03, 2023 @01:48AM (#38505359)
I think this is also one of my least favorite syntax choices in rST. I second the suggestions to use Sphinx with Markdown via MyST.
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