> I feel like Jeff Atwood and his friends abandoned the Commonmark project that tried to create a universal specification of Markdown. Even if they did, I don't

> I feel like Jeff Atwood and his friends abandoned the Commonmark project that tried to create a universal specification of Markdown. Even if they did, I don't think that Github, Stackoverflow, Reddit and other major Markdown users would ever convert. The CommonMark project has not been abandoned; the CommonMark C parser was implemented on GitHub earlier this year and is used to render Markdown across all repositories: https://githubengineering.com/a-formal-spec-for-github-markdown/ https://githubengineering.com/a-formal-spec-for-github-markd...