Tables in pure Markdown

I don’t believe there was ever a plan to add tables to the core CommonMark spec - it is categorised under “extensions” for this reason. The goal has been to finalise the core feature set first, and then consider extensions at a later point (official extensions not being a concrete plan either). GitHub Flavoured Markdown is a well supported third party extension of the core CommonMark spec which can be used today.

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