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If I may add - the real hero is Thomas Leitner. Who? The single markdown engine doesn't (yet) write itself. Thomas Leitner has done in mostly all on it own. Thank you. Thank you. More than 4 million downloads on RubyGems. To learn more read the Static Times Q&A w/ Thomas Leitner [1] about kramdown and more, for example. Cheers. [1] https://github.com/statictimes/questions/blob/master/01-thom...
Good to see this standardising, though I was hoping to read something about working with CommonMark, which is imo the best shot at an open standard.

HTML has proven too difficult for casual input and it's crazy every social network, CMS and forum has to pick its own crazy conventions for even basic stuff like bold, italic. CommonMark seems like the best shot at fixing this.