Any hosted blog engine with integrated markdown and code highlighting?

Question

Is anyone aware of any hosted blog engine (like wordpress.com for example) that supports writing posts in Markdown, and also supports code highlighting?

Answer 1

I haven't found one yet but if you really want you can set it up yourself it is not difficult.

I use markdown that highlights code via Pygments (using built in plugin - works out of the box). It's easy to dump css for highlighting from pygments and update for example blogger css.

I use python version of markdown:

import markdown
html = markdown.markdown(text,['codehilite'])

Then you can just prepare your blog in markdown and parse it through script on your pc and upload the html version to blog, see here how to do it on Blogger.

Answer 2

There's always Tumblr or Posterous.