Things Markdown got wrong
My firm belief is that if Markdown had never been adopted, we would have a standard way of formatting text by now supporting these 10 basic formatting types: headings, paragraphs, bold, italic, strike-through, monospace, bullets, links, images and horizontal rules. That's it. Just 10 basic formatting options.<p>There's no reason why, in 2020, these aren't available everywhere. Just like every text editor can understand emojis (with colors even!), these simple formatting rules should be baked into every platform by now, and easily used on everything from PCs to phones to TVs, in every editor from Vim in a terminal to email to iMessage to Wikipedia's text entry box. Just like emojis are. It's truly insane we haven't standardized this yet. How old is RTF or PDF? Doing this basic formatting in ascii text is just mind-numbingly stupid.