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As its author, he’s right though. There really shouldn’t be a standard considered Standard Markdown. It muddies the fact that it wasn’t published by its author.
by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
As its author, he’s right though. There really shouldn’t be a standard considered Standard Markdown. It muddies the fact that it wasn’t published by its author.
Maybe Common Markdown would have been a better name between a few large orgs.
- Almondsetat 1y agoBy this logic, since Ritchie died in 2011, you cannot have a "Standard C" because it's not from the author
- andrewmcwatters 1y agoWe don’t! We have ANSI and ISO C.
- zdw 1y agoWell, there's this: https://commonmark.org https://commonmark.org But everyone seems to have their own slightly different flavor, either pre- or post- that "standardization".
- everybodyknows 1y agoNotably, Github's superset: https://github.github.com/gfm/ https://github.github.com/gfm/
- zdw 1y agoGiven Github's owner, it's right out of their Embrace, Extend ... playbook.
- kennywinker 1y agoGFM predates microsoft’s acquisition of github by one year as a formal spec and six years as an informal one - but ms hardly has a monopoly on embrace-extend-extinguish.
- rafram 1y agoThat’s what they did in the end: https://commonmark.org/ https://commonmark.org/
- mikepurvis 1y agoIt was briefly renamed Common Markdown as well, and John hated on that as well, so it became CommonMark. And now we're in an odd position where Github and friends all validate their implementations against the CommonMark suites, but refer to the result as "Markdown" to their users, which makes the work they're doing maintaining that stuff especially thankless.
- zie 1y agoAnd then there is GFM (Github Flavoured Markdown), which is a bit different from Common Mark.
- mikepurvis 1y agoAt the time of the SM/CM/CommonMark kerfuffle a decade ago, Gruber was quite explicit that "X Flavored Markdown" was perfectly fine with him— Atwood even includes the relevant podcast snippet: https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common-markdown/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo... Honestly the whole thing is so ridiculous.
- kennywinker 1y agoThe thing he’s wrong about is not the name, it’s that markdown doesn’t need a standard. Markdown absolutely needed a spec, and gruber resisted that which is why the spec was done without him and has to be confusingly called CommonMark instead of just being markdown.