[tijuco2]

I like markdown a lot, but the fact that there's no standard is leading developers to create new tools with support for "new features" every day. Text editors and static site generators now have so called plugins. Markdown was created to be simple to use, and I think the Project is what should be evolving, not the applications, or soon the most rich feature app will neither be open source, nor free.

[benrbray]

The CommonMark standard [1] is an attempt to solve this problem, although I don't necessarily agree with all their syntax choies.

For instance, I find the redundancy built in to Markdown to be a misfeature--most Markdown editors don't distinguish between _this_ and this, even though the distinction between underlined and italic text is useful. Don't even get me started on all the different ways to create a heading and the headache it creates when parsing!

[1]: https://commonmark.org/