From: John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>
To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Why cmark is written in C?
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 08:37:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170806153738.GC78163@Johns-MBP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89ae88db-f9be-499c-b743-fe2d2cbc5ee7-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
1. Speed.
2. Portability (easy to create bindings to a C library in
any other language).
3. The current parsing algorithm is imperative in style;
the C library gives a model that can easily be copied
in other imperative languages.
+++ Kolen Cheung [Aug 05 17 21:33 ]:
>Hi, I'm just curious. Why cmark is written in C instead of Haskell?
>
>(A longer but more accurate question should be why write it in C and provide a Haskell binding and not the other way around?)
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