alt Hacker News> Yeah, because it’s a PITA to align everything by hand.
For now. I get the feeling we'll have tooling everywhere that does this soon.
I was recently tab-completing a Markdown table and whatever autocomplete model I had just fixed the table up without any intervention.
Yeah, it’s not terribly hard to do that even without AI (Prettier can do it, for example). But there’s a lot of places where the tooling just isn’t available. Then again, it’s probably not a big deal if your GitHub comment markup isn’t perfect.
I think the root of the problem is, almost everything else you use in Markdown is easy to do by hand. There’s just no good syntax for tables like this, I guess.