Compared to LaTeX, markdown markup is less obtrusive: Indeed, I use pandoc for making LaTeX beamer presentations and it generally provides the goodness of Mark

Compared to LaTeX, markdown markup is less obtrusive: Indeed, I use pandoc for making LaTeX beamer presentations and it generally provides the goodness of Markdown and LaTeX combined. Slides can be made far more quickly than in LaTeX. E.g. # Some section slide ## Slide title * Bullet point one * Some math: $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$ At the same time, one can e.g. immediately insert fragments of TikZ using the relevant \begin{...} \end{...} block and it just works.