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Re:Why the heck are we still using Markdown? by throw0101c on Saturday April 04, 2026 @09:19AM (#47638824)
> We want to encourage people to produce written output with minimal friction. Barriers to writing--and especially barriers to producing documentation--should be minimized. Writing well is difficult enough!

What about something like AsciiDoc (or reStructuredText)?

* https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/asciidoc-vs-mar...

* "Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText – a tale of docs-as-code": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468213

Simply things are still simple, but there seem to be more advanced options for those that want/need them.

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Re:Why the heck are we still using Markdown? by Analemma_ on Saturday April 04, 2026 @10:59AM (#47639612)
The problem is that proposed Markdown alternatives are targeting a vanishingly small niche of scenarios: for almost all simple writing Markdown is good enough, and for anything too complicated for Markdown, people will use HTML or LaTeX/Typst. The in-betweens just don't seem to have a reason to exist.
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