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Comment by keyle | Hacker News Reader

Congratulations, you've reinvented HTML 1.0! With if/else you're almost at DHTML.

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

AsciiDoc is even older than Markdown.

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.

Org-mode failed with hyperlinks and images:

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

is way more cumbersome than Markdown's:

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

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.

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

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).

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.

Those parts apply equally to both languages.

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