> Markdown unless someone either changes the behaviour of Discount,
> or recommends a different (and hopefully better) third-party library.
> --[[smcv]]
+
+> I am not sure the noise is so much "recent" anymore: that article
+> announcing Commonmark is from 2012 and markdown.github.com is from
+> around 2014.
+>
+> Presumably, Commonmark will become official in 2016, but you know what
+> they say about standards: <https://xkcd.com/927/>
+>
+> I guess the only thing that Ikiwiki would need to do would be to
+> somewhat support Commonmark. There's a Perl library that wraps the C
+> library here: https://metacpan.org/release/CommonMark
+>
+> I guess we would need to test how it performs and compares with
+> Discount, but having it as a third party module is up for anyone's
+> grab. It should be a fairly simple implementation after all...
+> --[[anarcat]]