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For those wondering, this is now the default markdown processor in Astro 7: <a href="https://astro.build/blog/astro-7/#markdown--mdx-in-rust" rel="nofollow">https://astro.build/blog/astro-7/#markdown--mdx-in-rust</a>
It almost feels like a parody...?
what is the use case of this application? Who may need it?
Processing markdown into html is a significant task for many blogs, sites, and apps. Satteri moves that processing into rust for speed gains.<p>Now used in Astro 7:
<a href="https://astro.build/blog/astro-7/#markdown--mdx-in-rust" rel="nofollow">https://astro.build/blog/astro-7/#markdown--mdx-in-rust</a>
Probably easier to think of it more as a fast, native-backed library for a JS runtime like Node to build Markdown processors/pipelines or even just do parsing. (Though it does have a WASM build for browser/edge use.)