Markdown is so bad in so many ways. Here are some, but I'm sure I forgot many others:
1. it's not a standard, there are dozens of variations and quirks;
2. parsing is hard and slow specially when you get to combinations of markups blocks inside other markup blocks and lists;
3. it sells itself on being readable as plaintext -- and it truly was in the beginning --, but with ![]() and []() URLs and ## titles it's really a pure-markup language that can only be read as plaintext with great effort, like HTML;
4. no one really wants to write Markdown, only a dozen nerds, and for some reason they assume the entire world loves Markdown.
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2025-03-14 03:54:48
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