Adding Markdown to Ddoc

[Jakob Bornecrantz]

On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 02:30:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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!
>

Happy if it can help you in anyway. We have imported some code 
from Druntime/Phobos as well, so licensing it all under BOOST 
made sense.

>
>> 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

It's a language a small group of people (me included) have been 
working on for a while, I avoid naming it here because it's a 
system level language like D. I don't want to advertise it in any 
form here to keep the discussion on D.

But in this case the intent was code sharing. :D

Cheers, Jakob.