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The claim that Markdown will never go beyond developers is kind of ironic considering markdown was co-invented by John Gruber, a non-developer.

There’s a lot of issues with this post, which basically completely misunderstands what markdown is, what its purpose is, and why it’s successful.

Btw, why are numbered lists so hard in Markdown?

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> There’s a lot of issues with this post, which basically completely misunderstands what markdown is, what its purpose is, and why it’s successful.

A lot of mystery issues that you are claiming but also not clarifying; at least the post attempts to make a case for something. I don't even know why you don't like Markdown's list markup. Give us a hint?

It's also amusing given that Microsoft teams has at least limited support for markdown. Depending on how you define a markdown user, it may be a that the majority of people typing markdown have never written a line of code but have discovered the convenience of markdown from being power users of Microsoft teams.

God, there is nothing that I hate more than MS teams editor. It's the worst of wysiwyg editing. Discord does it right imo.

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