Status::seedlings
Tags:: writing A brief rant opinion
Markdown this Markdown that, everybody seems to freaking love markdown.
Markdown is for people who, if given the options, would do everything in the terminal or a .txt file. Markdown is for people who aren't terribly concerned about visuals. Markdown is for people who like to memorize convoluted syntax instead of pressing a button.
Markdown is moving BACKWARDS from usability. It's only popular because it's a human readable file and therefore Open-Source-esque. Terrible user experience
Markdown comes in a dozen different "flavors" each on with slightly different syntax and support for different {{or:features | functions}}. Some flavors use the same symbols for totally different styling
Markdown can format pure text simply and anything beyond that becomes much more challenging to visually parse.