On the limits of MDX

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Skim

I have nothing but respect for those who contribute to the MDX ecosystem. Also, I'm totally the type of person that would love MDX. I have been writing in Markdown since 2004, and one of my first GitHub projects was a jQuery-based markdown footnotes plugin for Wordpress (jeez louise don't use this!). At university, I had a whole MultiMarkdown-to-LaTeX setup in Sublime Text with pandoc, BibTeX, and PDF preview with Skim going for me. It was kinda great (at least for the two weeks the setup worked).

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Notion

There's plenty of content platforms with plenty of rich text editors that spew out plenty of different formats, including markdown, HTML, and abstractions as MobileDoc and Portable Text. Medium gained popularity thanks to its smooth authoring experience, Notion now seems to have taken over that hype. Void of HTML and Markdown (well, markdown-like shortcuts works, but is not a requirement), but with rich embeds. Arguably, these interfaces are more friendly and more accessible than learning Markdown, or MDX.

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Markdown by DaringFireball

From a React developer’s standpoint that it's used to writing JSX, MDX seems to be touching on the ethos of Markdown, at least as John Gruber, its original creator, introduce it on daringfireball.com:.

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