# Straw poll for emacs / org-mode workflow

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/straw-poll-for-emacs-org-mode-workflow/10369
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** editors, emacs
**Created:** [April 16, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/straw-poll-for-emacs-org-mode-workflow/10369 "2018-04-16T18:46:17Z")
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### Author: ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/straw-poll-for-emacs-org-mode-workflow/10369/4 "2018-04-16T19:24:01Z")

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Given the lack of recent (using the term generously) activity for ob-julia, I think it is safe to assume that it is abandonned (unless there is something to suggest otherwise). I don’t see a license in the repo, so I guess if someone wants to use it, they should start a new project for the same purpose.

FWIW, I switched from `org-mode` to `Markdown` for the same purpose. `org-mode` is of course much more “powerful” because you can customize it directly with Emacs Lisp, but because of this, 3rd party tools have a difficult time converting your document, also, 3-5 years is enough for that Emacs Lisp code to go stale. Markdown seems much more timeproof because it is just a markup syntax, not a markup syntax plus an insanely powerful and versatile programming language, hundreds of packages, and the decades of cruft I copy-pasted into my `init.el`.

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