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I'm still using Textile. My blog engine (https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy) can cope with ReST, Markdown, Textile, raw HTML and iPython notebooks, and I still turn to Textile for complex tables and other niceties. Out of the 7000-odd pages on my site, most complex pieces are Textile (although most newer items are Markdown).

I find ReST incredibly awkward to use, really, because it's anything but intuitive - both Textile and Markdown are easier to write off the cuff.

More importantly, though, I really wish that Textile, Markdown, ReST, etc., were formally specified as PEG grammars or similar. There's just too much variation, and "standards" or specs defining them tend to be written in ambiguous English rather than something that could be formally validated and easily ported across to new languages (rather than the spaghetti messes of regexps that most parsers turn out to be when you look at the source).





Actually, I was thinking of CommonMark when I wrote that. The spec is still ambiguous, and a reference implementation is not a formal grammar...




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