@alexeymuranov, thanks for your PR! By analyzing the history of the files in this pull request, we identified @mboes, @peti and @vcunat to be potential reviewers.

Note that this isn't Markdown anymore but GitHub Flavored Markdown.

I hoped we could get syntax highlighting in the eventual manual as well by indicating the source is markdown_github. After fixing some small issues I got it to build, but unfortunately the syntax isn't highlighted. Checking the xml it seems a language is passed to programlisting so I suppose we need to fix the stylesheet.

That Markdown documented is targeting pandoc for conversion into Docbook so that it can be included in the Nixpkgs manual. Displaying that document in Github would be a nice feature, of course, but only if the Docbook output doesn't suffer because of it.

@peti Absolutely. Last I checked this PR (there's also one for Python #23535) didn't affect the manual in any negative way.

No more merge conflicts.