I render org to HTML (or let github do it for me for readmes, just as it does for markdown). What org is very good at is treating HTML, LaTeX, markdown, etc.

I render org to HTML (or let github do it for me for readmes, just as it does for markdown). What org is very good at is treating HTML, LaTeX, markdown, etc. as, effectively, compilation targets. `C-c C-e h h` : spits out foo.html `C-c C-e l p` : spits out foo.tex, foo.pdf.