Markdown vs. Scala vs. COBOL

All documentation and blog posts are written in Markdown

We use Markdown primarily for documentation and other forms of writing.

We’re using Markdown parsers for Reviews, Blog Posts, and Stack Description (the text you’re reading right now). We’re using Bootstrap Markdown for content input (except for reviews) and RedCarpet for rendering in certain places.

Users can format their contributions with Markdown. Great way to post tutorials with code.

Authoring of content

News articles consumed in markdown and injected into React components using Showdown with an XSS filter.

Define the project pages.

By now, almost all my text content is created in (some dialect of) markdown. It's easy to process and extend in javascript.

Using StackEdit to edit markdown files for blog roll and about sections. MD files are stored in Google Drive and pushed to GH pages through StackEdit.

For when you need to write.

Project documentation.

Documentation and tutorials about the app

Markdown is how I format all my posts. Uses the "smart" and "footnotes" options.

Update with Parsedown

Markdown represents a highly portable and lightweight text formatting. I had converted all of my Wordpress posts to Markdown prior to migrating over to Jekyll and eventually to Hugo. The fact that many generators support Markdown means that my content remains portable regardless of the platform/engine I use.

We use this internally, but there is also Markdown CMS plugn-in for Agile Toolkit.

We use NimbusKit/markdown as a convenience wrapper around NSAttributedString

저는 markdown 덕후입니다

Almost everywhere except Python documentation.

wiki notes, internal how-to guides, technical docs, change-logs, release notes

All specifications

Writing README.md's is very important to us. Also a lot of our content is maintained in Markdown (using contentful.com). We are also cool with org-mode.

We use Markdown to write posts for our blog, and also document our processes.

Huge fan of markdown

Mainly for github Readme files, and occasionally for other documentation as desired.

간략한 문법을 통해 깔끔한 문서가 나오는것에 매료되어있습니다.

Write Blog Post @ Github Pages, Documentation like API Blueprint

Use it on a daily basis to create beautifully formatted documents / pdfs.

Because it is almost an effortless markup language without ever having to write an HTML tag. Of course, you'll want to use it in environments that make it look pretty (GitHub, etc.)

Code documentation.

Markdown is awesome and becoming more well-known. It is also easier than using some proprietary markup language.

Yes, we have a README

Standard for editing readme markdown files.

For notes and documentation

For READMEs in code respository

Nearly our entire server codebase is written in Scala (if you haven't heard of it, it's a programming language that is basically what you would get if Java + ML had a baby). This has worked out super well. It enables us to write concise easy to deal with code that is typechecked at compile time. It's also been a big help with recruiting.

Programming language

We use Scala instead of Java to build Android App faster and more gracefully.

It's the language of Spark. DStreams and transformations.

Fo it's functional prowess

Used to build a wrap over Gatling to automate the stress testing.

I've been using scala commercially since 2008 in Banks and other projects.

Functional and conccurency programming

Replaces entirely the Java Language to build a much more expressive and powerful code on the backend, while leveraging at the same time the Java Platform Tools and Frameworks, is a mixture of old and mature with new and sexy.

Writing Scala is an enjoyable experience. What's more satisfying then using map to process your data in an array.

Scala, Akka and Spray (which became Akka-Http) provided the building blocks for the menu service.
Akka's actors and finite-state machine were a natural way to model a USSD menu (a series of stateful interactions between a subscriber and the USSD gateway).

Scala is the God of languages. A legend. The Mount Rushmore of hybrid OO/functional languages is Scala's face four times over.

Ok, honestly, we love Scala. We love(d) Java (and it's parents C and C++), and we love(d) all the languages that borrowed cough stole cough from Java over the years such as Groovy, Clojure, and C#.

It may not be perfect (it totally is, but since programming languages don't have egos of their own, we don't want to paint it too bright), but it is awesome. It runs on the JVM, you can utilize Spring, it works great for data processing (which is sorta kinda the thing we do here, folks), and it just makes sense at all levels.

If you don't like Scala, we feel sorry for the projects that are suffering due to your choices, meanwhile we are using Scala to write everything from JavaScript, CSS, SQL, and JSON directly within itself (go figure), so in the end no one will know the beauty of this powerhouse language (except for our engineers, of course).

New micro services are on this stack

Programming language for the core SRX tools

Functionnal Programming at its best.

worked with scala for around 2 years. really enjoyed the language and getting back into the world of functional. unfortunately the community is heavily fragmented and the language itself broken and inconsistent. that with the various factions involved made it a put of for long term investment.