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It's not a coincidence at all. Markdown is the "native" language for most LLMs, and the hype around it requires even low-level tools to support it (for both legitimate and marketing reasons)

It took “only” 20 years

I thought this was huge news so I posted it here and it got no eyes.

If you post something even slightly outside the current hype, it's very much hit-and-miss whether it gets eyes. It also depends on day of week and time of day when it was posted. Repeated reposts used to take care of that but they've been made impossible, probably because of spam and abuse.

I wish they stopped adding feature to notepad. Or if they really wanted to, create a new app note.exe and add features to it instead.

The new Notepad is a separate app. The classic Notepad with zero features can still be accessed with some hackery.

Settings -> Apps -> Advanced app settings -> App execution aliases

Quite honestly, I’m surprised it’s taken this long. It’s been 21 years since one of their biggest evangelists wrote the format!