a set of exporters (e.g., HTML, LaTeX, Markdown...).
Pillar is primarily used as the wiki syntax behind the Pier CMS.
The Pier CMS markup goes back to the Swiki markup which is the markup language of the wiki you are reading here.
The original creator of Pillar (formerly known as ''the syntax behind the Pier CMS'') is Lukas Renggli.
Nevertheless, Damien Cassou is now the maintainer.