At Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:05:44 +0300, Michael Snoyman wrote:
As for discount and sundown: I actually forgot to mention in my "distinguishing features" that the markdown package is pure Haskell, which makes it far simpler to get it working on Windows, and simplifies to some extent uploading executables to a server. In theory, markdown also has the potential to be a very fast renderer, though I have neither benchmarked it nor optimized it yet.
I don't know about `discount', but the sundown library is very lightweight and with no dependencies, so I doubt you'll have problems building that anywhere. That also reminds me that I should update it with upstream :). Moreover, sundown is thoroughly battle tested (it runs GitHub). However, there are still advantage to the pure Haskell approach - the biggest one is that you're working with sane datatypes instead that with char*... -- Francesco * Often in error, never in doubt