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xigoiyesterday at 8:46 AM1 replyview on HN

There is no such thing as a common subset of Markdown. Even basic things are rendered inconsistently by different implementations. If browsers decided to add Markdown support, this would lead to another “works only in Internet Explorer” situation.


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walterbellyesterday at 5:31 PM

> There is no such thing as a common subset of Markdown.

That was true before the widespread use of generative AI. LLM-generated markdown could _become_ the most common subset of Markdown, since machines can generate Markdown faster than humans.

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