John MacFarlane has published a lengthy
retrospective to commemorate twenty years of the Pandoc document converter.

On August 3, 2006, I uploaded the first version of pandoc to my
website, releasing it under the free GPL license. Pandoc 0.1 consisted
of about 3000 lines of Haskell code, with no dependencies aside from
GHC's standard library. It could convert Markdown, reStructuredText,
HTML, and LaTeX documents into any of these formats, plus RTF or S5. I
had no idea at the time that this would just be the first of over two
hundred releases over the next twenty years; that the project would
become the most
popular program written in Haskell; that I would spend countless
hours on bug-fixes, improvement, and project management; that I would collaborate with programmers in many other countries; that pandoc
would come to support over fifty document formats; that it would allow automatic generation of citations and bibliographies; that it would
become integrated into academic writing tools like Quarto and Jupyter Notebook; that it would be
installed on millions of computers around the world.

How did this happen? I want to take advantage of pandoc's birthday
to tell the story of the project, as best I can remember it.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086976/
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