alt Hacker NewsI think there is another article waiting to be written, why ReStructured Text lost.
I know that in my younger years I would get a lot of flak for converting .rst files into .md when I joined projects.
(As I got older I just stopped seeing .rst that much)
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benji-york • yesterday at 12:32 PM
I love reST and I think it lost primarily because of distribution. I.e., the people using it did not have large audiences and didn't put much effort into promoting it.
It's a shame because reST is almost as easy on the eyes as Markdown and is much more capable without being too much more complex.
zahlman • yesterday at 3:10 AM
rST is still fairly popular in Python circles, especially for anyone using Sphinx.
> I know that in my younger years I would get a lot of flak for converting .rst files into .md when I joined projects.
Why would you do that? Seems terribly impolite to join a project and start breaking things...