[kaycebasques]

The value prop of Sphinx goes down a lot if you're not using reST because you can't use the extensive catalog of directives, such as the ref directive that I mentioned in my first comment. If you must use Markdown then there's not much difference between Sphinx and all the other Markdown-powered SSGs out there. In other words there's not a compelling reason to use Sphinx if you've got to use Markdown.

From Sphinx's Getting Started page:

> Much of Sphinx’s power comes from the richness of its default plain-text markup format, reStructuredText, along with its significant extensibility capabilities.

https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/quickstart.html#g...

[lrobinovitch]

Myst has parity with most reST features and is equivalent to markdown for users not using those features: https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/v0.13.7/using/syntax.h...

[kaycebasques]

Oh cool I need to revisit MyST then. I thought it didn't support cross-references but it looks like I'm wrong: https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/v0.13.7/using/syntax.h...

I will have to dig into exactly how much parity we're talking here but if it's very strong parity then I redact my previous statement

Thanks for correcting me!

[jw_cook]

It works with all docutils and Sphinx roles, and almost all directives, including extensions.

A notable exception is autodoc (automodule, autoclass, etc.), and any other directives that generate more rST. The current workaround is to use eval-rst:

https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/syntax/code_and...

Some more discussion about that in these issues:

https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser/issues/163

https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/8018