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" I have never understood the fetish behind Markdown"

For one, there are multiple (and good) implementations of Markdown in Javascript, so it's trivial to embed Markdown in web pages and do all the processing client-side -> faster and better user experience + much lower server load.

Pandoc a) only runs locally/server-side and b) requires a 200 MB Haskell install before it will work.




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