After years of setting up new blogs, either online in one of uncountable online blog systems, or offline using static site generators such as Hakyll and the like, i sudenly realize Github supports Asciidoc (The Standard)/ Asciidoctor (The Implementation) out of the box.

You might wonder 'Hey, what’s the fuzz all about, Markdown has been there forever?' but there’s a fundamental difference in the two: '.adoc' files are part of a publishing pipeline. It’s designed with output format Docbook in mind, and once you enter Docbook, you’re in press business. Much like Coffeescript being a nice language, but the real power comes from transpiling it to JavaScript.

There’s a lot of professional documentation existing in .adoc today. O’Reillys accepts Books to be delivered in '.adoc'.

And Asciidoc has an API that allows me to extract information from '.adoc' files. One of my files is a report, containing a couple of tables, that i periodically scan for reporting/ statistical purposes.

Dan Allen and Sarah White have created an outstanding piece of software and brought Asciidoc to the next level. Congrats!