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giancarlostoroyesterday at 7:07 PM1 replyview on HN

I think its primarily because that is the most common formatting in every editor now? I could be wrong. Markdown has become the standard for README files for over a decade now.


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toastalyesterday at 7:15 PM

Winning a popularity contest doesn’t mean it’s good. That is the worst part of about these things as they just generate the most common denominator type code/tooling while also repeating anti-patterns/mistakes like the bash vs. sh-session/console issue I pointed out. Garbage in has been so much garbage out unfortunately.

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