[MatthiasPortzel]

The right comparison is comparing Gemtext to Markdown. I don't think Solderpunk or other Gemini users have any complaint with Markdown in particular.

The biggest problem with Markdown is that the vast majority of Markdown libraries convert Markdown to HTML. These are of course useless to implementing a native client that isn't based on HTML. (In addition, the CommonMark test suite is concerned with defining the correct HTML to output for a given Markdown input.)

So while Gemtext is heavily inspired by Markdown, there's no reason to introduce a reliance on Markdown.