The goldmark parser

https://github.com/yuin/goldmark

Notes made in late 2023; likely very out of date

GOOD

• One active, dedicated, awesome maintainer.
• lots of extensions, proven framework.
• goldmark is now the markdown renderer for Hugo, replacing blackfriday
• It already supports mermaid via an extension.
• It has (at least) 80 releases! https://github.com/yuin/goldmark/releases
• (at least) 80% coverage

maybe problems

• Some PRs being ignored by the maintainer. Sure.
• It doesn't yet support block level attributes, but maybe it's coming.
• The parser API doesn't seem to return errors.
• The rendering aspect of the package is pretty tightly bound to its parsing aspect.