GitHub-Flavored Markdown (.md)
Markdown (MD) is a lightweight markup language with a file extension MD, commonly used for formatting readme files, documentation, and comments in GitHub repositories. GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM) extends the original Markdown's capabilities, adding features like tables, task lists, and auto-linking URLs. Markdown's simplicity and effectiveness in creating formatted text using a plain text editor made it widely adopted in the developer community. GFM, in particular, is optimized for use on GitHub, enhancing collaboration and code documentation.