Spicy69

The same people that voted for financially responsible policies like reciprocal tariffs?

I use orgmode's ~tilde = "for code"~ and =equals_for_filenames.txt=, but what do I know.

I also like [Markdown's text first](https://hyperlink.com) then link format much more than [[https://hyperlink.com][Orgmode's link first then text]].

But for the life of me, there are so many things I hate about Markdown:

  - Alternative syntax for _italic_ *italic* and __bold__ **bold** (why?)

    - versus using /italic/ and *bold*. It just feels so right

  - You need to use HTML tags <u>to underline</u>, or <s>strikethrough</s>, or just about anything in Markdown (including line breaks! You need to use the <br> tag)

    - +strikethrough+ is alright, but _underline_ just makes sense

  - Lack of a unified Markdown standard:

    - Diminishes portability (e.g. varying approaches for file meta tags like in Obsidian)

    - Causes different renderings of the same document (e.g. Obsidian vs GitHub)

    - There was a serious standardization effort in 'Standard Markdown', only for the original creator to be a knob about it: https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common-markdown/

It's a shame too because despite Orgmode being superior to Markdown in just about every way, its adoption is nowhere near as close (editing is hard on iOS, and needing Emacs is a barrier for the general public).

Markdown isn't going away anytime soon.