I have high hopes for asciidoctor as in the text processor/converter, and the sooner I can have one less thing I need TeX for, the better. AsciiDoc the languag

I have high hopes for asciidoctor as in the text processor/converter, and the sooner I can have one less thing I need TeX for, the better. AsciiDoc the language though, like RST, has lost the popularity contest to Markdown I'd say - everyone around me knows what .md is, but ask about AsciiDoc and you're most likely to get "Ascii what?". That doesn't make it objectively worse, but I think allowing Markdown syntax as input (with metadata/annotations where needed) would give the project a boost.