markdown-implementations.yml

# Markdown Resources: Implementations
# ===================================
# Copyright 2013–2016 © Dr Wouter Soudan @ Rhythmus.be
# Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
#
# Document address: https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources/markdown-implementations.yml
# Last revision: 2016-01-13 17:45 GMT+1
#
# The following list is far from exhaustive: it’s a (personal,
# and hence, subjective) curated selection of the “best”
# Markdown implementations (parser, converters, e.a.).
# Search on GitHub for more:
# - https://github.com/search?q=markdown&nwo=fletcher#2Fpeg-multimarkdown&search_target=global&ref=cmdform
# Also have a look at the list maintained (?) by the W3C Markdown Community Group:
# - http://www.w3.org/community/markdown/wiki/MarkdownImplementations
# And here for Javascript implementations and wrappers:
# - http://www.plugingeek.com/categories/markdown-parsers-javascript
---
Markdown.pl:
  description: Original reference implementation
  type: converter to (X)HTML
  output: xhtml
  supported dialects:
     - plain Markdown
  customizable: no
  developers:
    - name: John Gruber
      website: http://daringfireball.net/
  website: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
  language: Perl
  parser type: hardcoded regexes
  maintenance: abandoned

Pandoc:
  description: Universal document converter. If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Pandoc can convert documents from markdown, reStructuredText, textile, HTML, DocBook, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, OPML, or Haddock markup.
  output: xhtml, docx, odt, odl, ePUB, DocBook, OPML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, pdf, Markdown, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, MediaWiki markup, Emacs Org-Mode, Textile
  developers:
    - name: John MacFarlane
      GitHub: https://github.com/jgm/
      website: http://johnmacfarlane.net
  repo: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
  website: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
  language: Haskell
  parser type: PEG grammar
  maintenance: active

Cheapskate:
  description: Experimental markdown processor in Haskell. This is an experimental Markdown processor in pure Haskell. (A cheapskate is always in search of the best markdown.) It aims to process Markdown efficiently and in the most forgiving possible way. It is about seven times faster than pandoc and uses a fifth the memory. It is also faster, and considerably more accurate, than the markdown package on Hackage.
  developers:
    - name: John MacFarlane
      GitHub: https://github.com/jgm/
      website: http://johnmacfarlane.net
  repo: https://github.com/jgm/cheapskate
  language: Haskell
  maintenance: active

Texts.js:
  description: JavaScript library (for Node and for browser) that implements conversion between various “rich” text formats. It does the conversion via universal text model (TextJSON, see below) that is rich enough for most of the texts.
  type: Node.js module
  output: xhtml, XeLaTeX, Pandoc JSON
  developers:
    - name: Fedor Sheremetyev
      GitHub: https://github.com/sheremetyev/
      Twitter: "@shrmtv"
  repo: https://github.com/sheremetyev/texts.js
  language: Javascript
  parser type: PEG grammar

mdown-parse-pegjs:
  description: Parsing Markdown with PegJS
  developers:
    - name: Ulric Wilfred (aka Anton Kotenko)
      GitHub: https://github.com/shamansir
      Twitter: "@shaman_sir"
  repo: https://github.com/shamansir/mdown-parse-pegjs
  language: Javascript
  parser type: PEG grammar

peg-markdown:
  supported dialects:
     - plain Markdown
  developers:
    - name: John MacFarlane
      GitHub: https://github.com/jgm/
      website: http://johnmacfarlane.net/
  repo: https://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown
  language: C
  parser type: PEG grammar

peg-multimarkdown:
  supported dialects:
     - MultiMarkdown
  developers:
    - name: Fletcher T. Penney
      GitHub: https://github.com/fletcher/
      website: http://fletcherpenney.net/
  repo: https://github.com/fletcher/peg-multimarkdown
  language: C
  parser type: PEG grammar
  maintenance: deprecated

markdown-js:
  supported dialects:
     - many
  customizable: yes
  developers:
    - name: Dominic Baggott
      GitHub: https://github.com/evilstreak
      website: http://www.dominicbaggott.com
  repo: https://github.com/evilstreak/markdown-js
  language: Javascript
  parser type: PEG grammar
  maintenance: active

marked:
  supported dialects:
     - plain Markdown
     - Github Flavored Markdown
  developers:
    - name: Christopher Jeffrey
      GitHub: https://github.com/chjj
      website: https://dilated.io/
  repo: https://github.com/chjj/marked
  language: Javascript
  parser type: hardcoded regexes
  maintenance: active

Discount:
  supported dialects:
     - plain Markdown
  developers:
    - name: David Parsons
      GitHub: https://github.com/Orc
      website: http://weblog.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/
  website: http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/
  repo: https://github.com/Orc/discount
  language: C
  parser type:
  maintenance:

Pagedown:
  supported dialects:
     - plain Markdown
  repo:
    - https://code.google.com/p/pagedown
    - https://github.com/ujifgc/pagedown
  language: Javascript

Showdown:
  supported dialects:
     - plain Markdown
  repo:
    - https://github.com/coreyti/showdown
    - http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://attacklab.net/showdown
  language: Javascript

Python Markdown:
  website: https://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/
  repo: https://github.com/waylan/Python-Markdown
  language: Python

Parsedown:
  supported dialects:
     - plain Markdown
     - GFM
     - Markdown Extra
  website: http://parsedown.org/
  repo: https://github.com/erusev/parsedown
  demo: http://parsedown.org/demo
  description: fast and extensible
  parser type: regexes
  developers:
    - name: Emanuil Rusev
      GitHub: https://github.com/erusev
  language: php
  note: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7783501

Mistune:
  website: http://mistune.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
  repo: https://github.com/lepture/mistune
  description: “The fastest markdown parser in pure Python, inspired by marked.”
  developers:
    - name: Hsiaoming Yang
      GitHub: https://github.com/lepture
  language: Python

markdown:
  supported dialects:
     - plain Markdown
     - GFM
  repo: https://github.com/cebe/markdown
  description: “A set of PHP classes, each representing a Markdown flavor, and a command line tool for converting markdown files to HTML files.”
  developers:
    - name: Carsten Brandt
      GitHub: https://github.com/cebe
  language: php

sundown:
  repo: https://github.com/vmg/sundown
  description: “Standards compliant, fast, secure markdown processing library in C”
  developers:
    - name: Vicent Marti
      GitHub: https://github.com/vmg
  language: C

kramdown:
  description: Ruby library for parsing and converting a superset of Markdown.
  input: Markdown, kramdown, html
  output: html, kramdown, LaTeX, pdf
  supported dialects:
     - plain Markdown
     - Markdown Extra
     - Maruku
  developers:
    - name: Thomas Leitner
      GitHub: https://github.com/gettalong
      e-Mail: t_leitner@gmx.at
  repo: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown
  website: http://kramdown.gettalong.org/
  language: Ruby
  license: MIT

Strictdown:
  description: A Strictdown parser and compiler written in Javascript. Built for web browsers and Node.js™
  developers:
    - name: Jak Wings
      GitHub: https://github.com/jakwings
  repo: https://github.com/jakwings/strictdown
  website: http://jakwings.github.io/strictdown/Syntax.html
  demo: http://jakwings.github.io/strictdown/demo.html
  language: Javascript
  license: MIT

Madoko:
  description: "Madoko is a fast javascript Markdown processor written in Koka It has great support to create beautiful scholarly and industrial documents in both HTML and PDF."
  supported dialects:
     - Madoko
  developers:
    - name: Daan Leijen
      CodePlex: http://www.codeplex.com/site/users/view/daan
      e-Mail: daan@microsoft.com
  repo: http://madoko.codeplex.com/
  website: https://www.madoko.net/
  language: Javascript Koka
  license: Apache License 2.0

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