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Port https://github.com/commonmark/cmark from C to Go. Go has decent markdown parsers (I maintain one at https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/ ) but there is no parser that does CommonMark. That would be a valuable addition to Go ecosystem and the project is well scoped (and there is existing test suite so you'll know if the code works or not).

Just curious why not call cmark from go with cgo? Would save a lot of effort porting.

Cgo has overhead and is slower
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