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Well the whole point of markdown is that it is simple enough so that devs easily document whatever necessary. As you know documentation is notoriously neglected by the developers. But this is not that simple. I doubt it will be adopted that much.


I'm not sure you realize how many blogs and website are written using markdown.


I think the parent's point is that markdown is simple, but markdeep is not.


I think your parent's point was that Markdown is used in a lot of situations where simplicity isn't as important as it is when documenting code.




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