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Prevalence of Markdown is to a certain extent accidental. It is one of those many markup languages that are easy-enough to reimplement which helped with the spr
by wirrbel 6y ago
Prevalence of Markdown is to a certain extent accidental. It is one of those many markup languages that are easy-enough to reimplement which helped with the spread and I think it was supported on Github early on.
Asciidoc is much more complex and so we only have 2 implementations around (a2x, asciidoctor).
- twic 6y agoI think it's an example of a phenomenon where there is a new-ish category of things, and that category is good, and there is one thing in that category that becomes well-known, so even though that thing is not the best in its category, it becomes wildly successful. Git, in the category of DVCS, is another example.
- wirrbel 6y agoThats a very valid comparison I think. (although I'd argue that git's success stems from not pinning down the workflow early on, like competing DVCS did).