Redcarpet vs CommonMarker

Redcarpet

The safe Markdown parser, reloaded. (by vmg)

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CommonMarker

Ruby wrapper for the comrak (CommonMark parser) Rust crate (by gjtorikian)

Markdown Processors Commonmark Libcmark HTML

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Redcarpet		CommonMarker
	Project
6	Mentions	2
4,933	Stars	404
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	8.0
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
C	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Redcarpet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Redcarpet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-03.

Real-time previews with Rails and StimulusReflex
5 projects | dev.to | 3 Feb 2022

We will use redcarpet to parse markdown. To do so, We need to add redcarpet to our application.
Where to start to create an editor for Rails
2 projects | /r/rails | 12 Sep 2021

My point is that I would like to understand if there are some resources or advice on how to start this journey: shall I first learn how to make a gem or can I start write it in a Rails app using Turbo and Stimulus to power up a textarea that will get some markdown parsed with Redcarpet
Redcarpet is written with sugar, spice and everything nice (most startuppy readme ever)
3 projects | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 23 Jun 2021

CommonMarker

Posts with mentions or reviews of CommonMarker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-11.

Magnus 0.5 released (Library for writing Ruby gems in Rust)
10 projects | /r/ruby | 11 Feb 2023

commonmarker (as of 1.0.0.pre)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Redcarpet and CommonMarker you can also consider the following projects:

kramdown - kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions.

word-to-markdown - A ruby gem to liberate content from Microsoft Word documents

Maruku - A pure-Ruby Markdown-superset interpreter (Official Repo).

Tocer - A command line interface for generating Markdown table of contents.

reverse_markdown - Ruby gem to convert html into markdown

markdown_exec - Interactively select and execute fenced code blocks in markdown files. Build complex scripts by naming and requiring blocks. Log resulting scripts and output. Re-run scripts.

trix - A rich text editor for everyday writing