Why do we see so many markdown editors? Is there some library or widget out there that everyone starts from to parse and render markdown, and then it just turns into a simple exercise of putting a UI in front of it and adding a tiny number of novel features? I can’t understand why so many people keep producing basically the same application with tiny variations to edit and view what is a relatively simple structured text format. I sort of remember from the 80s the quick and dirty app that you could find many of variants of for Commodore, Apple, and PC systems was a recipe database, largely because it was an easy exercise. Is the markdown editor todays version of that?