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CommonMark spec, with reference implementations in C and JavaScript

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2014-09-03 · latest 2017-06-15

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  1. …used on all that many blogs) has had more sway than them on this topic. 1: http://commonmark.org 2: https://github.com/jgm/CommonMark/wiki/Deployed-Extensions 3: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#philosoph...
    comment by kbenson · 2017-06-15 · in The future of education is plain text
  2. …a BNF, please do! But I'm very skeptical that it can be done, due to the many quirks of the syntax. https://github.com/jgm/CommonMark/issues/113#issuecomment-60...
    comment by taylorfausak · 2016-12-14 · in RFC 7764 – Guidance on Markdown
  3. …include writing pure-Rust implementations of these. Imagine, say, the CommonMark markdown parser ( https://github.com/jgm/CommonMark ) implemented in Rust. Making it as fast as the C version would be a challenging optimization problem, but…
    comment by kibwen · 2014-12-12 · in Rust 1.0: Scheduling the trains
  4. It appears to me that this is a blatant violation of Markdown's license. https://github.com/jgm/stmd/issues/19
    comment by stevekinney · 2014-09-04 · in Standard Markdown
  5. …with each others, or that any deviation from the standard will be very well approachable. [0]: https://github.com/jgm/stmd
    comment by thu · 2014-09-03 · in Standard Markdown
  6. It's because of this line: https://github.com/jgm/stmd/blob/e47d698c2cf1d24606bd2f708fe... But seriously, who cares?
    comment by matthiasv · 2014-09-03 · in Standard Markdown
  7. The closest Standard Markdown provides is the re2c "source" that gets converted: https://github.com/jgm/stmd/blob/master/src/scanners.re I agree that a universal PEG would be great, perhaps this is the project to base that grammar on.
    comment by imsky · 2014-09-03 · in Standard Markdown