Djot is the potential successor to Markdown (the popular lightweight markup format for plain text files).
It provides better-defined standards compared to the original Markdown, which make parsing easier while still keeping the sample principles of readability (see Beyond Markdown).
It is being developed by John MacFarlane, the creator of CommonMark (the main Markdown specification) and Pandoc (the universal file type converter).
Here’s a snippet from Djot’s website:
Djot is a light markup syntax. It derives most of its features from commonmark, but it fixes a few things that make commonmark’s syntax complex and difficult to parse efficiently.
Given that I use Markdown (and Pandoc) a lot for documenting code and writing papers, I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about Djot before.
I literally stumbled upon it online while reading this nice post about blogging, which I saw through the blogging hashtag on Mastodon.
But, yes. Now that I have heard about Djot, I love it already.
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