Adding Markdown to Ddoc

[Walter Bright]

On 12/11/2017 2:30 PM, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote:
> It is not written in D, but the language is close enough in concepts that it can 
> be mechanically ported into D, and is licensed under BOOST. Feel free to do what 
> ever to it[1].

Thank you for Boost licensing it!


> We first used the markdown parser from vibe.d, when we threw the CommonMark 
> testsuit, 10 tests segfaulted and 1 infinite-spun in a loop somewhere in the 
> code. We then rewrote from scratch using the recommended practices from the 
> CommonMark spec and the XML output from cmark as a guide.
> 
> The code is used in our documentation system. Both doc-comments and outside 
> documentation files are written in CommonMark. The doc-comments uses Doxygen 
> tags which is then run through CommonMark, most of the time it does nothing to 
> the comments, but if you want to write long comments it makes it much more 
> natural and enjoyable.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/VoltLang/Watt/tree/master/markdown/src/watt/markdown

It's apparently written in Volt:

https://github.com/VoltLang/Watt

But the two links there to Volt are dead:

https://github.com/VoltLang/Watt/blob/master/volt-lang.org