Comment by paultopia

might be a good argument, but too late? It feels like Markdown has won—look at editor preview availability, prevalence of being built into webapps, etc. For example, almost everything I write now text-wise I do in Byword, which gives me seamless sync on iOS/mac and has markdown as a first class citizen; longer writing usually gets passed through scrivener first, which has markdown as a first-class citizen, if I post a question on SO...