feat: explore markdown-rs #5
Description
Currently there are 3 popular markdown parser that are available in rust all of which offer their own set of pros/cons
- comrak
- markdown-rs
- pulldown_cmark
This issue is a tracking issue for evaluating markdown-rs. Currently, this is implemented in the branch feat/markdown-rs
Findings
- When rendering progit.md without syntax highlighting, it takes about 150ms as compared to 18ms compared to comrak
- Not exactly sure how to add syntax highlighting, but since it exposes mdast, the direction for that would probably be using the AST and applying it ourselves
- This issue on markdown-rs contains discussion on plugins
- This library might actually the way forward since it can expose the AST which can allow us to do more processing