facebook/phabricator — Issue #82: Remarkup .vs. GFM?
Author: broofa
Created: 2011-12-01 13:11:55+00:00
State: open

Would it make sense to go with a more standard markup syntax? E.g. github-flavored markdown.

I find remarkup to be particularly unintuitive. It's just similar enough to other markdown languages to trick you into thinking you can do stuff you can't. E.g __italic_phrase__ .vs. //italic_phrase//, and using triple-backtick blocks to avoid having to indent every line of the wad of code you just pasted into a comment.

Seems like this would also let you leverage much of the code that's already available for parsing GFM markdown, too.