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Yeah. Everyone uses it because it requires the least effort, but on so many levels Markdown is such garbage.

From the different code block implementations, to crappy tables, to trying to indent lists, and so forth.

But it's also the dumbest, lowest common denominator style of text. It's missing almost anything useful.

That it's popular is an insult to anything of quality.

That's what we have though. I don't feel cosy about a text language under stewardship either.



Markdown has a problem with consistency and tables, other than that it is pretty good.


This is because markdown is for simple note taking and is not meant to be rendered.

It wasn’t so long ago that markdown was praised for its simplicity and it’s not for nothing that everyone uses it nowadays.


Considering that the original implementation of Markdown was a Markdown to HTML renderer, your claim that it's not meant to be rendered is a bit suspect.




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