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by epolanski 157 days ago
Or because it was the default in GitHub with an ad hoc renderer.
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stouset 157 days ago
Markdown has been extremely popular since far before GitHub existed.
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thrdbndndn 157 days ago
I'm sure Markdown was already popular, but I agree with the OP that GitHub made it orders of magnitude more popular.

Previously its popularity was somewhat similar to RST.

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epolanski 157 days ago
Sure, but it became kind of the default with GitHub taking a lead position in code repository services.
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