Liking Markdown pretty much as it is, still

John Gruber (Markdown’s creator) has some thoughts on Markdown’s success: [T]he biggest reason for Markdown’s continuing success isn’t Markdown itself. It’s the triumph of plain text files, both for system configuration and for the interchange of human-readable (and thus, LLM-readable) prose. Markdown isn’t really a “syntax”. It’s a set of conventions for formatting plain text. [ ]