commonmark-d: A fast CommonMark and Github Flavoured Markdown parser, translation of MD4C

[bachmeier]

On Monday, 30 September 2019 at 23:06:42 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> commonmark-d is a D translation of MD4C, a fast SAX-like 
> Markdown parser.
> MD4C achieves remarkable parsing speed through the lack of AST 
> and careful memory usage.
>
> The route of translation was choosen because parsing Markdown 
> is much more involved that first thought. The D translation 
> largely preserve the speed benefits of M4DC.
>
>
> Usage:
>
>     // Parse CommonMark, generate HTML
>     import commonmarkd;
>     string html = convertMarkdownToHTML(markdown);
>
> Key Performance Numbers:
>     - commonmark-d compiles 3x faster than dmarkdown and 40x 
> faster than hunt-markdown.
>     - commonmark-d parses Markdown 2x faster than dmarkdown and 
> 15x faster than hunt-markdown (see GitHub for benchmark details)
>
> I haven't measured memory usage of either compile time or run 
> time, but I feel like it's also better.
>
> Available now on DUB: 
> http://code.dlang.org/packages/commonmark-d
> GitHub page: https://github.com/p0nce/commonmark-d

This is really nice. The examples show only conversion to html. 
Is there an easy way to get the intermediate output and convert 
to PDF through latex, to org-mode, etc., or to change the html 
conversion? One use case that is easy with Pandoc is to copy just 
the code from markdown into its own source file as a simple form 
of literate programming.