Yeah, that was basically my reaction as well. They tweaked Markdown a bit, changed a few things around, but it's pretty much identical to Markdown. I don't really see any big wins here. This XKCD seems somewhat appropriate: http://xkcd.com/927/
You should be happy that it is not named Yet Another Markdown Language. And I don't think there will be a standard Markdown in front of the people who shout out HOLY MARKDOWN until John Gruber release an update.
Is it sad that I recognized the comic from the context and the number in the link?
Sad but not very surprising: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F927#!/comm...
Re:SkrivML: A lightweight markup language
by thegeomaster on Thursday May 22, 2014 @07:46PM
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Just happened to me. The second I clicked it I figured out which one it was.
"Verbose" seems to be a trade-off for removal of intrinsic ambiguity (and the resulting standard wars) within markdown, which I speculate as the reason we still haven't come up with one "standard markdown" despite many calling for it.
IMHO this took minimal yet established markups from various wiki and markdown-ish syntaxes, further simplified them, finally approaching what we wanted as a "standard markdown" in the first place.
EDIT: I do like the link syntax, though.