> I don't really understand why reST is so unpopular compared to Markdown. There are two reasons: first is that Markdown is much simpler and is more narrow sco

> I don't really understand why reST is so unpopular compared to Markdown. There are two reasons: first is that Markdown is much simpler and is more narrow scoped and second is that reST implementation only exists in Python and Haskell - to some extent, not supporting extensions, obviously. Both of those reasons make entry level higher.