[ANN] lua-resty-hoedown 0.9 LuaJIT FFI bindings to Hoedown, a markdown processing library in C.

aapo.talvensaari · 2014-10-09T07:04:14+00:00

I would say this is for performance. Accessing locals is much faster. Take a look at Lua Programming Gems sample chapter about Lua performance tips [1][...

[ANN] lua-resty-hoedown 0.9 LuaJIT FFI bindings to Hoedown, a markdown processing library in C.

aapo.talvensaari

Hi,

I have created LuaJIT bindings [1] to Hoedown 2.0.0 (the latest version of it) [2] (probably one of the best markdown libs there is).

The implementation is rather complete (only missing custom renderer interface, separate autolink bindings, and stack bindings).

What the bindings contain now are:

1. Markdown HTML renderer with the extensions provided by Hoedown

2. SmartyPants processor

3. HTML and href/url escaper

4. Buffer bindings that can be used elsewhere as well

5. Hoedown version information

6. Helper functions

7. 0.9 version released in rocks.moonscript.org (LuaRocks default repository from 2.2)

I have shortly tested it, and everything seems to be working fine. I wish that people would try this out, and report all the problems in Github.

The API documentation is still missing, but the code is quite easy to read. I will be adding more docs shortly.

Regards

Aapo

[1] https://github.com/bungle/lua-resty-hoedown

[2] https://github.com/hoedown/hoedown

agentzh

Hello!

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Aapo Talvensaari wrote:
> I have created LuaJIT bindings [1] to Hoedown 2.0.0 (the latest version of
> it) [2] (probably one of the best markdown libs there is).
>
> The implementation is rather complete (only missing custom renderer
> interface, separate autolink bindings, and stack bindings).
>

Wow, this looks very useful to me :) I meant to write some dynamic
documentation web sites in OpenResty :)

Regards,
-agentzh

craigbarnes85

On Thursday, 9 October 2014 00:04:14 UTC+1, Aapo Talvensaari wrote:

(probably one of the best markdown libs there is).

I wouldn't be so sure about that...

https://github.com/hoedown/hoedown/issues/48