Why is markdown different between JIRA and Stash?

[Mike Kessler]

markdownstash.png

markdownjira.png

Same company, similar looking interface, different markdown.  What's the rationale behind making the markdown different?

[Marcin · Accepted solution]

The rationale has been addressed previously in https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/STASH-4385, but essentially the rationale is that Stash uses Markdown to be consistent with other software development tools.

[Pedro Cora]

Mike,

JIRA does not use Markdown. It uses it's own Wiki Markup: https://jira.atlassian.com/secure/WikiRendererHelpAction.jspa?section=all

-- Pedro

[Mike Kessler]

Ok so it's not called Markdown, but that doesn't take away from the fact that there are two separate interfaces to accomplish relatively the same thing. Why would Atlassian choose to handle things differently between the applications? I'm most interested in the philosophy behind that decision.

[MattS]

JIRA uses a suspect of what confluence used to use. Stash was written later when a different markup language was more popular

[MattS]

Subset not suspect