Markdown is the minimum viable product. It’s easy to learn and still readable if not rendered in an alternate format. It’s great.

For making PDFs, I’ve recently moved from AsciiDoc to Typst. I couldn’t find a good way to get AsciiDoc to make accessible PDFs, and I found myself struggling to control the output. Typst solves all of AsciiDoc’s problems for me.

But in the end, no markup language will make you write better. It’s kind of like saying that ballpoint pens are limiting your writing, so you should switch to mechanical pencils.

Yes, the author conflates two different use-cases.

Markdown is the answer for "how do we enable people that don't want to invest a lot of time into producing content that's somewhat better than plain text?".

It's not trying to solve the problem of "how do we enable people that are willing to invest time into learning to produce the best possible and most structured content possible?" and I doubt that there will be language that will serve both of those use-cases very well.

Djot is another interesting alternative that tries to make Markdown more parsable and coherent: https://github.com/jgm/djot#rationale

typst looks interesting -- but how are you writing it? from what I looked at, it looks like theres an official web editor and a vscode plugin with limited support. this feels pretty limited, as someone who came in expecting something like obsidian.