Ask HN: How are you using Markdown files these days?

[fred_terzi]

I am now using markdown daily for my AI paired programming, and more and more I see every site and tool using it.

How are you using it?

[mmarian]

Using markdown for the content on my blog site built with Astro. Don't have to think about hosting a backend, it's statically-built.

[sigwinch]

It’s a fine interchange format and I prefer it from my ripgrep preprocessor as opposed to text.

[fred_terzi]

can you explain more what you mean by that? I'm curious what the use case is.

[sigwinch]

To diff or even just page through a bag of arbitrary documents, there are a bunch of content extractors which helpfully target clean Markdown.

For anything more elaborate, my main competitor to Markdown is the Pandoc internal representation.