Comment by AlexAffe

I would argue, that Markdown is not a language at all. Markdown is a nice little touch up to your everyday txt file, that you anyways edit and read in <your favorite text editor here> most of the time. I write in Markdown, because that is the way I like my plain text files organized and well... marked up. And on top of that, in Github or Gitlab everything looks even more tidy and even the code snippets are nicely styled. yaay:)