Why will we use Markdown for Dojo2 instead of RST?

[gaurav21r]

Traditionally, Dojo has been using RST for the Reference Guide and it's worked really well.

RST is so much more extensible than MD. In the dojoment website you said we will extend markdown to support things like live examples. With RST I don't think we need to do that.

For a newbie too, it isn't all that difference. I learnt RST first, then Markdown.

I'd like to know the advantages of MD over RST. I completely agree with you when you say we must eat our own dogfood and I'm sure there are node.js libraries that can parse RST (instead of the more popular Python environment for the same).

Please see the top voted answers for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34276/markdown-versus-restructuredtext