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by balladeer
4480 days ago
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Pandoc and ReST are extensive, flexible, and simply complete. They are great. I have never understood the fetish behind Markdown and the cult-like fan-boyish approach to it. It was not needed. It would have been rather good to standardised an existing markup (or a combination of them) than copy the existing one and pretty much release it with a different name. |
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For one, there are multiple (and good) implementations of Markdown in Javascript, so it's trivial to embed Markdown in web pages and do all the processing client-side -> faster and better user experience + much lower server load.
Pandoc a) only runs locally/server-side and b) requires a 200 MB Haskell install before it will work.