What does HackerNews think of pulldown-cmark?
An efficient, reliable parser for CommonMark, a standard dialect of Markdown
Language:
Rust
I also really like this paradigm. It’s just that in old crusty null-terminated C style this is really awkward because the input data must be copied or modified. But it’s not an issue when using slices (length and pointer). Unfortunately most of the C standard library and many operating system APIs expect that.
I’ve seen this referred to as a pull parser in a Rust library? (https://github.com/raphlinus/pulldown-cmark)
Hmm, have you tried pulldown-cmark. It's not easy-perse but it's readable and has an awesome interface. Though it's rust so the interface usability might differ for other languages.
Author here. I actually was not aware of cmark.ex - thanks for pointing it out.
In this case the code reuse was more important than pure native speed. We already had a Rust library that used pulldown-cmark [1] with some custom tweaks that we wanted to duplicate. Maybe this behavior could have been copied using cmark.ex too (we thought about doing this in pure Elixir, as mentioned in the post), but given how straightforward Rustler made integrating our existing code, this seems like the better choice.