Although I find it hard to believe, the Minions assure me that there are still people who prefer writing in Markdown rather than Org-mode. I don’t want to relitigate that issue here. If you’re interested in why no right thinking person would prefer Markdown to Org—even without Emacs—I refer you to Karl Voit’s detailed analysis of Org’s superiority. Objectively, it’s just a better markup language and that’s before we get to Babel.
Regardless, there are those who use Markup either because they have to or because they really do prefer it. That leads to the question of which editor is best for writing in Markdown. (That issue doesn’t come up with Org-mode, of course.) Needless to say, we Emacs partisans dismiss this as a silly question because we think all editing tasks are best done with Emacs. Less biased folks may demur.
Franco Pasut is one such person and he analyzes the four editors
- Vim
- Emacs
- Sublime Text
- VS Code
all of which have facilities for helping you edit Markdown. He looks at each editor both out-of-the-box and with Markdown specific add-ons.
I’ll let you read his post for the details but as a spoiler, I’ll tell you that Emacs is not his first choice even though he is an Emacs user.