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@pludikovsky When people are in favor of #Markdown, they either do mean the concept of lightweight #markup languages (#LML) in general (yeah!) or they do not really know many other LMLs in comparison.

Furthermore, people voting for MD often do ignore the obvious downsides of that ecosystem because they have already overcome some of them, ignoring the majority of people who still need to learn that LML in future. 😔

I hate #RestructuredText like the British hate the French.

It's totally irrational and not based in any kind of sane fact.

But I hate it anyway :)

Today's grievance: I have my editor all kitted out to help me write superlative #Markdown. Spelling check, syntax lighlighting, you name it, I got this!

And then someone throws !@$# RestructuredText at me and I'm making spelling errors like a 6th grade n00b and being reelgated to looking back at a cheat sheet 50 times a minute :)

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The changelog for this monster release is over 1000 lines long. Highlights:
- `pandoc lua` works as a #LuaLang interpreter;
- `pandoc server` starts #pandoc as a server;
- The new "chunkedhtml" format generates paged, book-like output;
- Support for [[wikilinks]] and ==highlighting== in #Markdown (both hidden behind extensions);
- Better support for complex #figures;
- list tables for #reStructuredText output;
- and much more.