Like everyone here, I’m also excited to see Markdown inside WordPress. I don’t see the visual editor going away anytime soon.

I’m a designer/developer and without a visual editor WordPress becomes a much more difficult sell to clients. Markdown is great, but it’s still niche. The majority of WordPress users are still going to want and rely on a visual editor being present. Whether that’sTinyMCE or something else is another matter.

Still, as someone who writes everything in Markdown, I’m very excited