Markdown VS cmark

Compare Markdown vs cmark and see what are their differences.

Markdown

A simple Elixir Markdown to HTML conversion library (by devinus)

cmark

💧 Elixir NIF for cmark (C), a parser library following the CommonMark spec, a compatible implementation of Markdown. (by asaaki)
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Markdown cmark
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0.0 7.3
about 4 years ago 25 days ago
C C
The Unlicense MIT License
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Markdown

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

cmark

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  • Using Rust with Elixir for code reuse and performance
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Aug 2021
    I wonder if they looked into using https://github.com/asaaki/cmark.ex which is an already made Markdown Elixir NIF written in C. No glue code needed since the package already exists.

    Back when I was writing Elixir, it's what I used to process Markdown and it was also substantially faster than the native Elixir Markdown library (Earmark).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Markdown and cmark you can also consider the following projects:

earmark - Markdown parser for Elixir

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Pandex - Lightweight Elixir wrapper for Pandoc. Convert Markdown, CommonMark, HTML, Latex... to HTML, HTML5, opendocument, rtf, texttile, asciidoc, markdown, json and others

md4c - C Markdown parser. Fast. SAX-like interface. Compliant to CommonMark specification.

Seafile - High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features.

mdp - A command-line based markdown presentation tool.

cmark-gfm - Haskell bindings to libcmark-gfm GitHub Flavored Markdown parser

cmark - Haskell bindings to libcmark commonmark parser

cmark - CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C