[whacked_new]

I was a long time org mode user and used babel extensively [1]. It was a marvelous experience, but the market chose markdown. I still drop into org-mode some times for specific features, and the babel integration is still in its own league, but technically there's nothing preventing something similar for markdown.

I pulled some org-babel code to make a code fence evaluator for markdown a while back [2] but haven't found myself needing it that much. So without a need to wrangle reports or run exports, I think it's a 1% feature for text file connoisseurs.

[1] https://ess.r-project.org/ with babel is an experience I find superior to jupyter tools even after all these years

[2] https://github.com/whacked/emacs-markdown-babel

[johanvts]

Conforming to “the market” is just a pandoc call away. I export to markdown, pdf, html and even docx all the time when i need to share with colleagues. I prefer writing in org-mode because of the complete ecosystem it offers inside emacs. But also just as plaintext I really miss src blocks in markdown.

[iLemming]

Yup, never had no problem with that. My notes are in Org - if I ever need to grab something to share with a colleague, my yanking command is advised - with a prefix it calls Pandoc and converts to markdown and vice-versa - to get something of markdown into my notes - it all takes just a keypress.

Following "the market" often feels like reinventing yourself over and over only for the sake of throwing that knowledge into the garbage pile of deprecation - do you guys remember the days when market dictated the use of Dreamweaver, Silverlight, SOAP and SVN?

If market tomorrow barks that everyone should be using "Blockchain-ML" or "UltraScript Deluxe" formats, I'm not gonna convert million lines of my notes to whatever crap gets trendy. When I say "Org-mode", there's no confusion - it will remain the same even a decade later, but Markdown? Which one is it - CommonMark, GFM, MultiMarkdown, Kramdown...? It looks like we're not done "perfecting" it, maybe markdown doomed to remain in 'beta'... forever?

[tmalsburg2]

Sure, the market chose Markdown, but this simply led me to the conclusion that the market isn’t worth following. Of course the mismatch creates some friction, but the benefits of org-mode, for me personally, easily outweigh that.

[BeetleB]

The market also chose Internet Explorer ;-)