Pandoc and ReST are extensive, flexible, and simply complete. They are great. I have never understood the fetish behind Markdown and the cult-like fan-boyish approach to it. It was not needed. It would have been rather good to standardised an existing markup (or a combination of them) than copy the existing one and pretty much release it with a different name.
" I have never understood the fetish behind Markdown"
For one, there are multiple (and good) implementations of Markdown in Javascript, so it's trivial to embed Markdown in web pages and do all the processing client-side -> faster and better user experience + much lower server load.
Pandoc a) only runs locally/server-side and b) requires a 200 MB Haskell install before it will work.
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Pandoc and ReST are extensive, flexible, and simply complete. They are great. I have never understood the fetish behind Markdown and the cult-like fan-boyish approach to it. It was not needed. It would have been rather good to standardised an existing markup (or a combination of them) than copy the existing one and pretty much release it with a different name.
" I have never understood the fetish behind Markdown"
For one, there are multiple (and good) implementations of Markdown in Javascript, so it's trivial to embed Markdown in web pages and do all the processing client-side -> faster and better user experience + much lower server load.
Pandoc a) only runs locally/server-side and b) requires a 200 MB Haskell install before it will work.