Given the ubiquity of Markdown, and how painful it is to build a completely compliant parser, I really hope Djot (or something like it) would take off.
Shame that the creator of Markdown blocks any efforts to to fix or standardise the format.
…and threatened legal action against anyone using the word “Markdown” in a way he did not approve of.
Jeff Atwood goes out of his way to be courteous to Gruber in this post, but frankly, I think Gruber was being a jerk here, using his claim to the name to tyrannise an open source community that he has otherwise not been involved with in the slightest the last ~17 years.
Shame that the creator of Markdown blocks any efforts to to fix or standardise the format.