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nvader a day ago

I 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)

tasuki 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> 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...

benji-york 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

rST is still fairly popular in Python circles, especially for anyone using Sphinx.