Reading up on Pandoc

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.

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

Quarkdown extends Markdown with programmable features for advanced typesetting, positioning itself as a simpler alternative to LaTeX and competing with Typst.

Markdown became ubiquitous due to its simplicity, plain-text nature, and portability, despite ongoing standardization debates.