[matijsvzuijlen]

The format itself has several warts, like the ancestor list continuation syntax, or whether or not to add a backslash if you want a literal asterisk.

The implementation lacks checking, so for example if you have some text between square brackets, it will often just get dropped even if the contents is not valid as an attribute list.

[aidenn0]

AsciiDoctor now has an unambiguous way to insert an asterisk. The original Python implementation does not.

[aidenn0]

I was on my phone when I posted the above, so couldn't easily look up the exact way it's:

  {asterisk}