Markdown is widely used for blogging and instant messaging, and also used elsewhere in online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is easy to read in its source code form.
Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. Pandoc, MultiMarkdown, Markdown Extra, CommonMark, RMarkdown ĭaringfireball.
