micromark and CMSM #439
Description
remark-parse has served us well. It’s the second most popular markdown parser on npm, and its gaining in popularity. It’s the most used part of unified. It’s what made MDX possible. It’s a big part of Gatsby, Prettier, and countless others
It’s also a fork of marked, and originates from before CM existed or GFM was common. It includes bugs.
A while back, we announced micromark. In the last month, I finally started work on it, thanks to ZEIT, Inc., Gatsby, Inc., Netlify, Inc., Holloway, Inc., and the many organizations and individuals for financial support through OpenCollective.
It’s time to rethink what parsing Markdown means, and the last month I’ve spent working on just that. Follow along at:
This is not the end of remark-parse: micromark will replace its internals. But micromark will also allow exciting new projects.