12 engineers on Hacker News describe using Markdown first-hand: 4 endorse it, 1 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“Markdown-compiled was my favorite as a developer (and also the most performant), but it was everyone else's least favorite”
mixed · production · cj · 2024-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I like Markdown because it's simple and doesn't give me that many headaches.”
endorse · personal · KronisLV · 2024-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched the iommi docs from markdown to rST for this and many other similar issues of rST being more powerful.”
regret · production · boxed · 2024-03-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've typeset book-length works using nothing but Markdown, almost always sufficiently (there are a couple of limitations”
mixed · personal · dredmorbius · 2021-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“whereas with Markdown I could always just insert a code element”
endorse · production · ComputerGuru · 2020-03-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using markdown for the past year or so when I don't need the full power of LaTeX.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · privong · 2016-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm finding markdown plus pandoc a good fit for the latter.”
endorse · personal · akeck · 2015-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I became so used to Markdown (largely thanks to the profusion of editor support it spawned) that I mostly gave in.”
mixed · personal · rcarmo · 2014-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Zettelkasten method for my own notes written in markdown on the terminal.”
neutral · personal · dvas · 2022-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use markdown files, but separate sections with ``` so I can use different inputs”
neutral · personal · gpnt · 2020-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had a bunch of existing Markdown stuff typed with both my phone and my computer”
neutral · personal · timtylin · 2015-03-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Django for templates, JSON, BeautifulSoup, Markdown”
neutral · personal · 0.8 yr · nikcub · 2010-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?