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Implementations of Markdown are available for over a dozen programming languages; in addition, many applications, platforms and frameworks support Markdown. For example, Markdown plugins exist for every major blogging platform.

While Markdown is a minimal markup language and is read and edited with a normal text editor, there are specially designed editors that preview the files with styles, which are available for all major platforms. Many general-purpose text and code editors have syntax highlighting plugins for Markdown built into them or available as optional download. Editors may feature a side-by-side preview window or render the code directly in a WYSIWYG fashion.

Some apps, services and editors that support Markdown as an editing format, including:


 * Microsoft Teams: chat messages
 * Discord: chat messages
 * JotterPad: an online WYSIWYG editor that supports Markdown and fountain
 * Doxygen: a source code documentation generator which supports Markdown with extra features
 * RStudio: an IDE for R. It provides a C++ wrapper function for a markdown variant called sundown
 * GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) ignores underscores in words, and adds syntax highlighting, task lists, and tables
 * RMarkdown
 * Nextcloud Notes: the default app for taking notes on the Nextcloud platform supports formatting using Markdown
 * Joplin: a note-taking application that supports markdown formatting
 * Simplenote
 * Obsidian is note-taking software based on Markdown files.
 * The GNOME Evolution email client supports composing messages in Markdown format, with the ability to send and render emails in pure Markdown format or to convert Markdown to plaintext or HTML email when sending.
 * The Mozilla Thunderbird email client supports Markdown through the "Markdown here Revival" add-on.
 * Kanboard uses the standard Markdown syntax as its only formatting syntax for task descriptions.
 * Discourse uses the CommonMark flavor of Markdown in the forum post composer.
 * Bugzilla uses a customized version of Markdown.
 * Visual Studio Code provides Markdown-specific features alongside basic text editing capabilities, including the ability to render a preview alongside the plain text.