On: Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc

[meta-level]

What exactly is your comment about? Have you heard about asciidoc before?

[Tomte → meta-level]

AsciiDoc is even older than Markdown.

[kleiba → Tomte]

As is org-mode. I think Markdown is one of those VHS vs Betamax kind of situations where it was just lucky to get the traction that its competitors didn't.

[tetris11 → kleiba]

Org-mode failed with hyperlinks and images:

    [[https://123.com][Description]]

is way more cumbersome than Markdown's:

    [Description](https://123.com)

[kleiba → tetris11]

I find the use of a single type of bracket to be less cumbersome than Markdown's variant. The two extra characters don't bother me.

[tetris11 → kleiba]

I think my main hangup is that the thing I wish to markup is preceded by the link, instead of succeeded by it

[fhars → kleiba]

That is a bad analogy, as VHS won through pure technological superiority (it was able to record a standard length TV program without you having to sit in front of the device to switch the cassette in the middle).

[L3viathan → Tomte]

Only technically.

By that name, yes, but much of Markdown was "discovered" rather than invented, having been used in email/newsgroups/... for a long time.

[Symbiote → L3viathan]

Those parts apply equally to both languages.