Episode 11 covers setting up markdown for writing and editing podcast show notes.
AlchemistCamp
cnck1387
You mentioned earmark being kind of slow and also name dropped cmark.
Is there a reason you’re not using cmark in the project?
I ended up using it here. Mainly because for comments and other markdown areas of the site I wanted a markdown preview which means every time the user flips between writing and previewing, it hits the server to do the compilation.
cmark also handles safe html out of the box. But it does look like it’s not really maintained anymore, although it appears to work.
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Exadra37
What Elixir cmark package are you using?
This one — cmark v0.10.0 or this one Markdownif - Fast and Secure Markdown NIFs built with Rustler and pulldown-cmark?
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AlchemistCamp
I like Earmark because it’s being maintained and it’s all Elixir so it’s a bit quicker for me to see how it works. Also I don’t remember if cmark was missing GFM or something like that when I checked it out.
Ideally I’d just use a PEG to define my own Markdown to HTML compiler but it’s pretty low on my list of priorities.
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cnck1387
The first native C one, I had trouble getting the 2nd one to compile when I tried it a few months ago.
Yeah that is one problem with cmark. I think it’s just common markdown but also supports code fences.
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