One thing I think people aren't talking enough about is how #genAI has made #Markdown as ubiquitous a document format as #XML was in the early '00s.

Of course the great thing for us programmers is that it is almost as poorly specified and ambiguous as #YAML.

We are so good at this standards stuff.

@tastapod given how unsuccessful more formal definitions have been, there's something about these messy ambiguous formats that resonates with people. Maybe something to do with how subvertible they are?!!
@stevefenton see also: how quickly HTML degenerated after starting as a strict subset of SGML