Re: [Docutils-users] 2015: reStructuredText implementations in other programming languages?

[George V. R. <ge...@re...>]

StackOverflow and all the other StackExchange sites use Markdown heavily. I
think the plethora of Markdown implementations in different languages has
helped its adoption.

There's also VST, an implementation of reStructuredText in VimL, Vim's
native extension language. I used it for a year or so and gave the author
feedback, but it was never great.
https://github.com/vim-scripts/VST/blob/master/doc2/vst.txt

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Kevin Horn <kev...@gm...> wrote:

> @Skip
>
> IMO, RestructuredText and Markdown fill different niches.  Markdown really
> targets HTML output and is quite limited when talking about other output
> formats.  This is mainly because it only supports a limited group of
> document elements.  If you need something outside this set of elements, the
> Markdown way of handling this is to insert raw html.  This really makes
> markdown only suitable for (relatively) simple documents or documents that
> will be turned into HTML.
>
> RestructuredText tries much harder to support whatever type of document
> element you happen to need, and if one isn't supported, it has built in
> extension mechanisms (custom directives/roles) which you can use.  This
> allows it to be much more useful if you want to support non-HTML output
> formats.
>
> There's room for both in the ecosystem, as they do different things
> (though there is some overlap).
>
> As far as Markdown taking over, I would say that both have experienced
> quite a bit of growth in the last few years, Markdown mostly being used for
> simple documents, and HTML fragments (thinking comments here), and
> RestructuredText getting a lot of use and exposure via Sphinx (which is
> used for lots of projects even outside the Python community).
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Skip Montanaro <sk...@po...> wrote:
>
>> Hasn't Markdown kind of taken over the marked-up-text world these days?
>> Or is that just how it appears since that's what Github supports?
>>
>> Skip
>>
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