[alpaca128]

I also prefer .org files for anything. It does almost everything Markdown does with just as simple syntax, but then can be used for any more comprehensive purpose by being fully LaTeX compatible. Although I think this strong coupling with Emacs has unfortunately caused it to stay in that niche, even though most of those scripted interactions aren't really important for the common use-cases.

It also doesn't help that Emacs seems to be the only complete and correct parser; I tried org files as Readme in git repos, and for example Gitlab really struggles. Pandoc isn't fully compatible either.

[JohnL4]

2nd. I'm a heavy org-mode user but the problem w/org-mode is that it's got emacs in front of it, and you are just not going to get uptake. Pandoc's not really a solution, either, apart from a one-time extraction of org-mode to whatever other format is desired. As soon as you get multiple non-emacs editors, your pandoc trip is over.