CMark Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator?

  I use GNU make. Write content in markdown, feed it to https://github.com/commonmark/cmark to create html. I intended to splice files together using xslt but echo and cat written in the makefile sufficed. I'm not totally sure I'd recommend that but I do like the markdown => html flow. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Building a Personal Internet from Markdown Files

  I seem to be in the middle of trying to build something similar to this. I want it to run on an android phone but otherwise the same sort of idea, offline-first information I want access to. There's some weirdness around android browsers refusing to load html from the phone itself on security grounds. The OP uses a "progressive web app" which seems to be the proper way to do this at some point in the past, but... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Using Rust with Elixir for code reuse and performance

  Yeah no doubt it, although in this case the C implementation has been a long running project that's under the official commonmark GitHub repo at https://github.com/commonmark/cmark. But I think the most important thing here is an Elixir NIF already exists to use it. The blog post as is leaves readers having to implement ~100 lines of Elixir code to use the Rust version because the authors of blog post didn't... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• How do I link and use a c library?

  I'm confused about how to use a c library (specifically, cmark) from zig. Source: over 2 years ago

• My favorite cli/tui programs:

  Writing Documents Markdown (and md2pdf or cmark + html2ps + ps2pdf) / plain text / groff. Source: almost 3 years ago