Pandoc - twenty-years-of-pandoc

kept by eddie aug 04

Pandoc turned twenty, recounting its Haskell origins, growth to support over fifty formats, integration with tools like Quarto and Jupyter, and enduring community appreciation.

How Markdown took over the world
Markdown became ubiquitous due to its simplicity, plain-text nature, and portability, despite ongoing standardization debates.
also on Pandoc, GitHub, #open-source, #productivity, #developer-tools
What's the best programming language for coding agents?
Dan Luu's empirical tests with LLMs on Zstd and Pandoc implementations show that language popularity weakly correlates with better outcomes, but claims about dynamic or token-efficient languages being superior for coding agents do not hold across non-trivial tasks.
also on Pandoc, #software-engineering, #developer-tools