Ask HN: How are you using Markdown files these days?

2 fred_terzi 2 6/6/2025, 4:29:38 PM

I am now using markdown daily for my AI paired programming, and more and more I see every site and tool using it.

How are you using it?

Comments (2)

sigwinch · 10h ago

It’s a fine interchange format and I prefer it from my ripgrep preprocessor as opposed to text.

fred_terzi · 9h ago

can you explain more what you mean by that? I'm curious what the use case is.

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