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I'm still upset that Markdown ended up getting all the mindshare and doesn’t evolve. All the fragmentation through different markdown flavors doesn’t help.

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Evolution in the biological world usually looks a lot like fragmentation, at least in the short term.

You are right. It would be interesting to compare evolution from a computer scientific and biological point of view. To find out if they are similar…

I believe that natural evolution makes it easier to let the bad branches die out.

We need a specification for the forced extinction of markup languages that fail to gain traction.

The original core markdown being privately owned and frozen doomed it to having a politically funny future.

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