I built a Markdown like text format for writing technical reports. I was fed up with Word and I wanted a plain text language that supports tables, footnotes, auto validated references to any part of the document, syntax highlighting of code blocks, comments, math equations, table of contents, etc... Unfortunately, existing solutions are all slow or written with some bizarre toolchains that are a pain to set up.
I wrote it from scratch in Go with very few dependencies, so I can compile it to a single binary that should work on all platforms. It outputs .html or .tex which is then compiled to a PDF via Xelatex. Since Latex is pain to deal with, I wanted to generate pdf directly, but life got in a way so... it's not exactly a finished project, but at least I enjoy using it.
Tab vs spaces war has cooled off, so we have to start a new one.
A: If I do X, then this happens...
B: Yeah but I don't care about X.
A: You are not a professional if you don't care about what I care about.
Now that this debate has raised some dust, I guess Bob has already started writing the "Clean Performance" book in order to continue to milk the series and stay in the spotlight.