How does this compare to RST, which also claims to solve specific MD inconveniences? In researching for this reply I see that it's joining a somewhat crowded field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_document_markup_...
RST is pretty much the worst option out there. Your mainstream options are: * Markdown. Great for simple stuff. It's going to be awkward if you're writing a book or technical docs or whatever. * RestructuredText. Better for more complex documents but the Python code that drives it is abysmal and it's less popular than Asciidoc so there's really no reason to use this. * Asciidoc. Definitely a step up from RST but it d…
It depends on what ecosystem you exist in whether reStructuredText or AsciiDoc is more common. reStructuredText came from Python and is vastly more common there, AsciiDoc came from Ruby and is vastly more common there. Me, I’ve seen a lot more reStructuredText than AsciiDoc. Also having studied lightweight markup languages closely (and designed and used my own for the last five or six years, which I’ve almost finished implementing at last!), I think AsciiDoc has more serious design problems than reStructuredText. And without doubt it’s uglier.