[sacado2]

I think JSON and Markdown are very different, in fact.

JSON is very strict. It won't let you have a comma after the last element of a list, for instance (which is very annoying in many cases). It won't let you add comments in any way, shape or form. It won't let you use single quotes instead of double quotes. Or forget quotes in keys. Or mess with case in null / true / false. Or use NaN values.

Markdown is ill-defined, and will happily let you do whatever the hell you want.

JSON is made for programs, and is a PITA to write as a human (for the reasons mentioned above). But a pleasure to parse and (to some extent) generate automatically. It's not very good with text.

Markdown is made for humans, and I'd hate to have to parse a markdown file and do something with its content other than basic formatting. It's bad at anything but text.