Markdown Criticisms and Standards
Discussions critique Markdown's popularity, simplicity over correctness, lack of standardization, inconsistent implementations across products, and propose alternatives like CommonMark.
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By the spirit of the thing, Markdown ought not qualify
Markdown? Markdown-ish? Something better than the foot-gun of markup currently supported?
Why markdown everywhere, don't we have better markup languages?
No way. Markdown chooses simplicity over correctness. Fine for chat forums an Readmes, but in many cases correctness matters.
Why is markdown so popular? It seems so braindead.
Markdown is a specific implementation, a concept lost on the majority of the people in this thread.
As if Markdown wasn’t dumb enough already?
Oh yeah, limited options with Markdown. Hence the original comment (:
Hm... Isn't that what CommonMark is for?
I thought the point of Markdown was having a style-agnostic markup language that can easily be converted to HTML...?