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MD is popular because most do not know org-mode, that's is. As usual bad things spread most thanks to some third party interests...

• hisnameishank 4y ago
  piggy backing on this comment to mention that github can render .org files :).
  • trey-jones 4y ago
    Alas, not perfectly, but yes. All of my repos have readme.org, not README.md
• D13Fd 4y ago
  Probably because org-mode has a horrible name.
• afarviral 4y ago
  Not really, it's because org-mode is completely almost unusable outside of Emacs. Unlike Markdown, it looks terrible as truly plain text. And Emacs, while great in so many ways, is is an esoteric paradigm (same with vim, but many of us are hooked on it anyway). Ubiquitous keyboard layouts, text editing and markup paradigms are all due for a massive shake up, but agreed they have a lot to learn from the Emacs stuff.