Markdown Is a Programming Language. Fight Me.

The dev community has spent 20 years calling Markdown 'just a markup language.' They're wrong. Here's the full technical case — parse trees, AST internals, the CommonMark spec, Pandoc's extended grammar — plus why Markdown is the fastest way to write long documents that has ever existed.

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