What I don't understand is with the recent adaptation of GPU-accelerated terminals, why not create something that actually renders Markdown like you'd expect in the browser, but in the terminal? It would have to be significantly faster than the bloat of a typical browser, but just with limited features... like no JS engine.
Those are cool but they are still using just ANSI color codes and what not. I think it is great but not ideal or optimized than if terminals would implement a native markdown or markup renderer.
Wait, how would that even work? Do you want something like SIXL support but for markdown? Encode your markdown doc in an unholy escape sequence and throw it at the terminal?