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Discount (For Ruby) Implementation of John Gruber's Markdown

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#1

Md4c

Similarity 137Trust 96Excellent 100

C Markdown parser. Fast. SAX-like interface. Compliant to CommonMark specification.

1.4K starsJun 4, 2026 pushdocument-processingCMarkdown
$ npx skills add mity/md4c
#2

Seafile

Similarity 132Trust 94Excellent 100

Beyond file syncing and sharing, a new way to organize your files with extensible file properties and flexible views

15K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingCMarkdown
$ npx skills add haiwen/seafile
#3

Mdp

Similarity 128Trust 88Excellent 91

A command-line based markdown presentation tool.

5.3K starsJul 9, 2025 pushdocument-processingCMarkdown
$ npx skills add visit1985/mdp
#4

Parsedown

Similarity 126Trust 91Excellent 100

Better Markdown Parser in PHP

15K starsFeb 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingPHPMarkdown
$ npx skills add erusev/parsedown
#5

Markdown

Similarity 124Trust 93Excellent 100

A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown with Extension support.

4.2K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonMarkdown
$ npx skills add Python-Markdown/markdown
#6

Easy Markdown Editor

Similarity 124Trust 94Excellent 100

EasyMDE: A simple, beautiful, and embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor. Delightful editing for beginners and experts alike. Features built-in autosaving and spell checking.

3.0K starsMay 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor
#7

Markdown It Py

Similarity 122Trust 96Excellent 100

Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed. Now in Python!

1.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonMarkdown
$ npx skills add executablebooks/markdown-it-py
#8

Discount

Similarity 122Trust 82Strong 82

My C implementation of John Gruber's Markdown markup language

885 starsJun 9, 2026 pushdocument-processingCMarkdown
$ npx skills add Orc/discount
#9

Markdown Wasm

Similarity 121Trust 82Strong 73

Very fast Markdown parser and HTML generator implemented in WebAssembly, based on md4c

1.7K starsNov 22, 2022 pushdocument-processingCMarkdown
$ npx skills add rsms/markdown-wasm
#10

Tree Sitter Markdown

Similarity 121Trust 84Strong 79

Markdown grammar for tree-sitter

610 starsMay 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingCMarkdown
$ npx skills add tree-sitter-grammars/tree-sitter-markdown
#11

Slidev

Similarity 120Trust 95Excellent 100

Presentation Slides for Developers

47K starsJun 3, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add slidevjs/slidev
#12

Gitbook

Similarity 120Trust 95Excellent 100

The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites

29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add GitbookIO/gitbook
#13

Markdown It

Similarity 120Trust 98Excellent 100

Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed

22K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add markdown-it/markdown-it
#14

Wiki

Similarity 120Trust 95Excellent 100

Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

28K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingVueMarkdown
$ npx skills add requarks/wiki
#15

Jekyll

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

:globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby

51K starsApr 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingRubyMarkdown
$ npx skills add jekyll/jekyll
#16

Marked

Similarity 119Trust 91Excellent 100

A markdown parser and compiler. Built for speed.

37K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add markedjs/marked

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