For some people and some uses, plain text is just more comfortable. I love the ability to scratch something down in Markdown really quickly, and being able to

For some people and some uses, plain text is just more comfortable. I love the ability to scratch something down in Markdown really quickly, and being able to convert it to LaTeX if I want to, without any hassle. I'd love to write blog posts in Markdown. Google+ uses the italic and _bold_ syntax in their own posts, which is very useful. I don't exactly know why it's better, to be honest. Maybe WYSIWYG editors are inherently dependant on their own implementations and rely on people learning the interface. Text-As-An-Interface is beautiful in it's simplicity. Markdown is the perfect mix of simple markup without the insanity of BBCode.