Org is my favorite markup too (mostly because of emacs' org-mode). I certainly hope it picks adoption in the future. One of the downside, however, is its syntax

Org is my favorite markup too (mostly because of emacs' org-mode). I certainly hope it picks adoption in the future. One of the downside, however, is its syntax for verbatim paragraph is a bit awkward (requires a colon at the start of each line).