> I know vanilla Markdown is too limited for some use cases. CommonMark does not make Markdown less vanilla -- it's not like GFM or one of the other standards

> I know vanilla Markdown is too limited for some use cases. CommonMark does not make Markdown less vanilla -- it's not like GFM or one of the other standards that adds support for tables or other features. From Jeff Atwood (who is one of the CommonMark creators): > The goal of CommonMark is not to redefine what Markdown is, or change the syntax, but make it parseable and predictable. https://talk.commonmark.org/t/what-changed-in-commonmark/15 https://talk.commonmark.org/t/what-changed-in-commonmark/15 Here's CommonMark's statement on why it exists: https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#why-is-a-spec-needed- https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#why-is-a-spec-needed- CommonMark's entire purpose is to fix data interoperability.