Pandoc creator John MacFarlane reflects on the 20-year journey of Pandoc, from its first release in 2006 as a 3,000-line Haskell program to becoming the most popular Haskell-written tool, supporting over 50 document formats and integrating into major academic platforms like Quarto and Jupyter Notebook.
Background
Pandoc is a widely-used open-source document conversion tool that supports converting between numerous markup and document formats. It has become an essential utility in academic, technical, and publishing workflows.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Aug 4, 2026 at 03:44 AM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10