MyST
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Nov 22, 2025first mention
Oct 29, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Writing markdown and so also MyST[1] is the complex problem”
“One might argue that _Myst_, or at least its predecessor _The Manhole_”
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“I love puzzle games”
“The whole point of MyST is to provide a markdown-like alternative to rST.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“We are building around a shareable AST precisely because structure really matters.”
core developer from Jupyter Bookon “Markdown is holding you back”
Threads where it came up
Also written as Myst. Data: myst.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“Writing markdown and so also MyST[1] is the complex problem”
“One might argue that _Myst_, or at least its predecessor _The Manhole_”
“I love puzzle games”
“seen here before: https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/syntax/optional.html#code-fences-using-colons”
“The whole point of MyST is to provide a markdown-like alternative to rST.”