Comment by abmmgb
2 months ago
What are peoples' favourite md implementations? Curious as there are different varieties and even more varied opinions. I am building a lightweight project folder managing app supporting markdown and I am between Commonmark and GitHub flavoured markdown and want to gather thoughts.
At this point pandoc, that way I can at least be sure I can translate it to whatever format I need.
I know it doesn’t answer your question, but: AsciiDoc. All major forges support it and it has the same features as all the other Markdown flavors combined.
GFM, because HTML in markdown should not be a parse error, and getting twenty different markdown "specs" to all agree on new syntax for bits they are obviously missing (like details, classed scoping, transclusions, etc) is not happening.
HTML in markdown has never been a parse error. Unless you're using something very broken.
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html
Except under GFM, html is explicitly part of the spec[1], not just "it's not a parse error, but that's because it's just text that doesn't fall in any predefined markdown syntax category", and good luck finding a WYSIWYG markdown editor that gets them right. The number of editors that completely break on <details> alone is disheartening.
[1] https://github.github.com/gfm/
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I love Pandoc’s markdown. Wrote my PhD thesis in it, and most of my subsequent articles.