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Huh? The core/reference implementation was python-only. (Was python2-only for a while, actually--I helped change that.) Asciidoctor (ruby) is a prominent implementation, granted, but afaik there are quite a few other implementations in other languages.

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Not so much. And the original Python variant is a) slowly growing old in features, b) the Python3 variants are unfinished and are missing support. I don't remember exactly in what respect, but I evaluated things some months ago and reluctantly installed the ruby gem of AsciiDoctor. I would have prefered a Python solution very much in my Python-driven environment. Also, a 'pip install asciidoc' would be very welcome.

> the Python3 variants are unfinished and are missing support.

I stand corrected:

https://asciidoc.org/CHANGELOG.html (Version 9.0.0 (2020-06-02))

I'm talking about where the momentum is. Sure I can use asciidoctor (through docker,etc)..but what I'm really talking about is the adoption in the wider ecosystem.

Which needs javascript, tooling, support,etc. Asciidoc as a community has not gone down that path.

You might be interested in asciidoctor.js and asciidoctorj

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