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Standards compliant, fast, secure markdown processing library in C

9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2012-10-30 · latest 2017-12-26

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  1. …a while ago. The name choice is a bit unfortunate, but I guess it’s too late to change it now. [1]: https://github.com/vmg/sundown
  2. …say that the name is very unfortunate. 1. Sundown is the name of a Markdown library written in C: https://github.com/vmg/sundown . That Sundown is pretty widely known and used among Markdown implementers. As such, when/if the OP's project…
  3. …usage. I actually bench marked all of the Markdown implementatinos back in 2016 (or early 2017). https://github.com/vmg/sundown was by far the fastest!
  4. Very poor naming choice. Sundown is the name of a popular Markdown implementation: https://github.com/vmg/sundown Strongly suggest renaming your project as early as possible.
  5. …there are processors for markdown in C. Actually, when I first glanced the title, I thought it was https://github.com/vmg/sundown . In any event, that's just a naming issue. The bigger point is, I think the overall project at SunSed looks…
  6. In related news, I recently saw this: https://github.com/vmg/sundown/commit/37728fb2d7137ff7c37d0a... Looks like the proposal to create a formal markdown standard is actually going somewhere.
    comment by president · 2013-01-10 · in Task Lists in GitHub Flavored Markdown
  7. …parsing . I needed to preserve the markdown source untouched, which Sundown doesn't support. https://github.com/vmg/sundown
    comment by SeoxyS · 2012-12-12 · in Surprises When Designing An iPhone App
  8. …Github, ...) Github are also implementors, hence the 2 or 3-years old "github-flavored markdown". https://github.com/vmg/sundown is their core library, with https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet as the ruby interface.