4 engineers on Hacker News describe using reStructuredText first-hand: 1 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“It's syntax is just abysmally awful and the tooling sucks (seriously, it's not just bad... it sucks!).”
regret · production · ktosobcy · 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.”
endorse · production · boxed · 2024-03-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“RST is terrible. The idea is great, but the ball was dropped on the execution.”
regret · production · ComputerGuru · 2020-03-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So I wrote a bad parser that extracted the code from rST and put them into python files that we then ran.”
neutral · production · boxed · 2023-02-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?