> I agree with a lot of comments that it's minimal, but in my opinion that is a good thing. I'm a big fan of Obsidian, and of the things I like about it is the data source is all markdown files. Markdown is meant to be very lightweight and portable, and overcomplicating it will limit adoption and extensibility (imagine markdown vs pdf).
What Markdown got right was creating a nicely readable lightweight markup syntax.
And Markdown also demonstrated how to create a bad precedence for future consolidation by being so loosey goosey and underspecified (and with a bad reference implementation). That there is a Commonmark at all is solely because of others picking up the slack and doing the unthankful gruntwork of creating 100 if-then-else statements in a semi-formal prose format.
What Markdown got right was creating a nicely readable lightweight markup syntax.
And Markdown also demonstrated how to create a bad precedence for future consolidation by being so loosey goosey and underspecified (and with a bad reference implementation). That there is a Commonmark at all is solely because of others picking up the slack and doing the unthankful gruntwork of creating 100 if-then-else statements in a semi-formal prose format.