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Markdown is popular because most developers are too lazy to look for better alternative and follow the hivemind.
by goodpoint 4y ago
Markdown is popular because most developers are too lazy to look for better alternative and follow the hivemind.
- pessimizer 4y agoTo expand on the hivemind, it was pushed by an Apple-sponsored tech blogger while Apple was continuing their push to market their laptops to frontend web developers. A bunch of Apple laptop developers then started embedding it although the spec had weird issues. The best substitute was Asciidoc, and it also made a few strange choices and is nearly too complex to justify using over HTML. So, with no good light alternative, Markdown won.