I feel like we’re coming full circle.

1. Existing rich text solutions require applications to edit, let’s make one that is so simple you can read/write in plaintext. Markdown is born.

2. Wait I need more features, let’s add more stuff

3. Hey this is too complicated to work with, I need an editor!

That being said, check this out: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/languages/markdown