The most popular markdown parser on npm hasn't seen a release in 7 years, and the second most popular markdown parser emits an unclosed <em> whenever you use *emphasis* syntax on any line other than the last line of a paragraph.
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it has 2% as many weeklies as the other one though
2% almost certainly means the one with more downloads is in fact is more used, but download count is an inherently flawed metric. Package a which is depended on by package b is always going to have >= download count of b, and a may not be the package app code is picking
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But one of the core problems with download count as a metric is that it's impossible to distinguish "this was a transitive dependency" vs "this was something I chose to use to solve a specific problem"
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or "this was just for a CI run"
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