becase it's easy to write, forces me to use some sort of structure, and it might come handy.
However, the end HTML is microformats v1 and v2 - v1 for google, search engines, etc, v2 for anything indieweb.
While Pandoc was generating something sane, the output of CodeHilite puts silly amount of extra text and makes the HTML output completely unreadable.
In the end, it still looks like prism.js is a nice and solid solution, even if it's JS.
I'll explore other options, but so far, it's either back to Pandoc, or sticking with Prism.