From #22836 Feature Allow extensions to enhance to VSCode's builtin markdown preview, such as adding math support for example Working Draft of API Extensions can enhance VSCode's markdown preview by: ...

The official MyST (Markedly Structured Text) VS Code extension, for extending the Markdown language. This extension extends VS Code's Markdown language with the following features: Extended syntax ...

VSCode is an excellent text editor that can be used for various programming languages. One of its standout features is its ability to be transformed into a powerful markdown editor with the help of ...

Plain text is the best way to make sure your writing is accessible across a variety of platforms and devices. Markdown is a lightweight formatting syntax that offers formatting and typography ...

What’s special about Markdown is it uses plain-text syntax for formatting, so it’s easy to tell at a glance what Markdown-formatted text might look like when it’s rendered.

Markdown is very flexible—perhaps too flexible. Markdown was not the first text-to-HTML converter, but it was simple and took most of its shorthand syntax from the real world.

Markdown's super-simple syntax — say that five times fast — is one of the main reasons why it's a better tool to write on for digital output formats.