[nickledave]

Really weird to see this person mention MyST as a form of Markdown, and then go on to talk about reStructuredText as their first example of a markup language "that gives you more control over structure than ... markdown".

The whole point of MyST is to provide a markdown-like alternative to rST. It literally has directives, roles, structural semantics, etc. It just doesn't have the unlearnable syntax of rST and the so-called governance of docutils (the de facto rST parser) (see e.g. discussion on https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/8039 and linking issues)

[agoose77]

Thanks for making this point! I'm chiming in just to add that the Jupyter Book project that builds MyST tooling is now using a new TypeScript stack instead of Sphinx, for any interested newcomers!

But yes, ^this. We are building around a shareable AST precisely because structure really matters.

(I'm a core developer from Jupyter Book, the team that builds the new MyST stack — see https://jupyterbook.org/stable/community/history/ and https://mystmd.org/guide/background)!