What does HackerNews think of markup?

Determines which markup library to use to render a content file (e.g. README) on GitHub

Language: Ruby

Writing a Book with Unix | Mar 2019
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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
Markdeep markup language | Aug 2018
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Asciidoctor is in the supported markup list in the GitHub Markup README[1], which means you might need to enable compat-mode for strict AsciiDoc syntax support. The Asciidoctor repository's README.adoc renders just fine[2].

[1] https://github.com/github/markup [2] https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor
A list of cool features of Git and GitHub | Jan 2015
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There are many different formats you can use: https://github.com/github/markup
Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language (2012) | Nov 2014
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>Github can render org-mode files to HTML directly if checked into a repo

They also support ASCIIDoc, ReST, MediaWiki markup, Creole, etc.

See: https://github.com/github/markup
Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language (2012) | Nov 2014
This article is great. I really never understood the preference of Markdown over rST. Also, little do people know that github supports rst https://github.com/github/markup

But looks like Creole as well, which i didn't know :)

LyX 2.1.0 released | Apr 2014
Is .lyx supported by github? Cf. e.g. https://github.com/github/markup
Rendered Prose Diffs | Feb 2014
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Well, sort of. It works for AsciiDoc, Textile, and all other formats supported by https://github.com/github/markup
Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language | Apr 2013
Why was reST not supported and contributed to by the community, BTW?

I saw a comparison here[1] and good that GitHub supports[2] other markups too. I don't think there's much of a need to move to Markdown other than just for the sake of using something else.

I remember reading Jeef's post The Future of Markdown[3] few months ago and then what ensued was really frustrating [4].

[1]http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/doc-notes/markdown-and-re...

[2]https://github.com/github/markup

[3]http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markd...

[4]https://twitter.com/gruber/status/262287246953164800

GitHub Flavored Markdown Online Preview | Nov 2011
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The source code for the app is using the github-markdown[0] gem to render - so it seems strange that it isn't working.

[0]: https://github.com/github/markup

Edit: Ah, heres the problem: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/47 - the github-markdown gem doesn't support github-flavored markdown, they must use a different gem or branch on the site