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> One of the most powerful features of Asciidoc is the attributes and blocks system. Asciidoc documents are structured in blocks, which are arbitrary length collections of lines. Lines can be text, attributes, directives, or formatting instructions.

One of the most powerful features of Markdown is that it's just text, and you don't need to learn some deep programmer lore in order to use it. Those extra features do come at a cost, such as being to tied to a single Ruby implementation and not having been ported to countless other languages because a Markdown parser is so much easier to write. And Crafting Interpreters was written in Markdown [1], you wouldn't think it because it's so beautifully formatted. Markdown is enough, simplicity wins.

[1] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-craft...