[johanvts]

Conforming to “the market” is just a pandoc call away. I export to markdown, pdf, html and even docx all the time when i need to share with colleagues. I prefer writing in org-mode because of the complete ecosystem it offers inside emacs. But also just as plaintext I really miss src blocks in markdown.

[iLemming]

Yup, never had no problem with that. My notes are in Org - if I ever need to grab something to share with a colleague, my yanking command is advised - with a prefix it calls Pandoc and converts to markdown and vice-versa - to get something of markdown into my notes - it all takes just a keypress.

Following "the market" often feels like reinventing yourself over and over only for the sake of throwing that knowledge into the garbage pile of deprecation - do you guys remember the days when market dictated the use of Dreamweaver, Silverlight, SOAP and SVN?

If market tomorrow barks that everyone should be using "Blockchain-ML" or "UltraScript Deluxe" formats, I'm not gonna convert million lines of my notes to whatever crap gets trendy. When I say "Org-mode", there's no confusion - it will remain the same even a decade later, but Markdown? Which one is it - CommonMark, GFM, MultiMarkdown, Kramdown...? It looks like we're not done "perfecting" it, maybe markdown doomed to remain in 'beta'... forever?