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Djot

A clean Markdown superset that commenters described as a well-designed extension path for richer document syntax.

Why developers recommend it

It was praised as an extensible alternative alongside the Show HN itself.

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Hacker News Mentions

2026-04-18

One commenter said they had been enjoying djot.net as a superset of Markdown with front matter, schemas, and code-fence metadata.

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