Why the heck are we still using Markdown?

Summary

There are few things in life that bring me much joy and hate at the same time. Like chocolate that hurts when eaten and markdown. Seriously why?? Half of the time we aren’t even using the full language! HTML is the best Programming Language! I know you’ve heard people say the only programming language they know is HTML. And I know, we both rolled our eyes in discontent trying to get our PL papers out of our assembled decks of papers on how HTML is only a markup language and not a programming language. I mean yes we’re on the right but that guy probably has something we don’t have. A life. [Note] When I’m talking about markdown, I am specifically talking about CommonMark Unless stated otherwise. Because it is the unambiguous syntax specification. I love the project, I really appreciate their efforts on making this language a bit more grounded. It’s not the specification that’s broken, it’s the language itself. The Good Markdown is a minimal language used for typesetting trivial documents. It needs to do one simple job: get a Markdown file and output an HTML file. Its syntax is legible as it gets and is easy to write even with no assists. Like the C language you can see the output that will be created. Bold is always <b></b> at the end and italic the same. Learning curve is simply nonexistent if you’re just a casual user. Just one look at the cheat sheet and you’re ready. The Bad We don’t know what we want. Do we want UI? Do we want a programming language? We don’t know. The only reason feature creep exists is because of unclear specifications. You want a MINIMAL easily legible markup language, you have markdown. Simple as that right? well… (output taken from dingus) # Hello *I am an* __Unambiguous__ > Grammar <h1>Hello</h1> <p> <em>I am an</em> <strong>Unambiguous</strong> </p> <blockquote> <p>Grammar</p> </blockquote> Hello ===== _I am an_ **Unambiguous** > Grammar <h1>Hello</h1> <p> <em>I am an</em> <strong>Unambigious</strong> </p> <blockquote> <p>Grammar</p> </bl...