I'm a Chinese CoffeeScript user.
It confused me a lot the line breaks disappeared in most Markdown implementations.
It confused me that Github, StackOverflow, Gist, ReadTheDocs are all not friendly to line breaks.
Well, I want to keep wikis so that people may benefit.. But all platforms do bad on this issue.
There are some [demos here on my blog][blog] that show how text could be tidy and beautiful with many line breaks in Chinese. And there's [a place][coffee] people always use line breaks to keep good readability.
[blog]: jiyinyiyong.github.io/blog/ [coffee]: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/tree/master/src
Markdown is broken :(