> Maybe? My point, though, is that from day 1 it was meant to be rendered as HTML.
No, from day 1 it was meant to be readable as plain text and optionally rendered as HTML
Nobody is disputing that a key requirement of MD is to be machine parseable. What you’re missing is that another key requirement is for it to be human readable in plain text because it needs to be readable even when it hasn’t been rendered. Ie the rendering is an optional step but the format has to support one’s choice whether to render.
No, from day 1 it was meant to be readable as plain text and optionally rendered as HTML
Nobody is disputing that a key requirement of MD is to be machine parseable. What you’re missing is that another key requirement is for it to be human readable in plain text because it needs to be readable even when it hasn’t been rendered. Ie the rendering is an optional step but the format has to support one’s choice whether to render.