Was hoping that this would be using the original UNIX typesetting tools like troff. Also, surprised to see that asciidoc wasn't deployed over markdown.

i was recently turned on to asciidoc from seeing that its supported at github

https://github.com/github/markup

and ironically development seems to have stalled on markdown with the advent of commonmark

https://github.com/commonmark/CommonMark/issues/558

https://github.com/commonmark/CommonMark/issues/559

https://github.com/commonmark/CommonMark/issues/560