One of the biggest misses for asciidoc is that it's core libraries are ruby only. The javascript renderers are autogenerated and unmaintained.

This is also the reason why community uptake for asciidoc has been hard. Fundamentally we do not have any pastebin or hackmd for asciidoc.. because it is hard to build for it. Pastebin and hackmd have consistently refused to include asciidoc.

Momentum exists in the JAMSTACK space. Yet Gatsby and Nextjs play with markdown variants (MDX?) for markup. There are no asciidoc examples even in their repos .

Asciidoc is undoubtedly superior to markdown..and more importantly, is a well defined standard. But unless the core team engages with the ecosystem more, this is DOA.