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Zigmark - CommonMark Markdown Parser in Zig

Ben Craton, CISSP PMP — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

zigmark</h2>
A CommonMark-compliant Markdown parser and renderer, written in Zig.</strong></p>
View on GitHub →</a></p>

Why we built our own</h3>
Markdown is great, but real-world usage has grown well beyond what any single library tends to support. We wanted a stack that combined:</p>

A complete CommonMark + GFM implementation</li>
The exact extensions we care about</li>
A clean way to treat a document and its metadata as one unit, not as two loosely-related blobs.</li> </ul>
Most existing tools either missed features we needed or treated frontmatter as something you strip off, process separately, and then glue back on. That made anything beyond “render this file” feel fragile. With zigmark, frontmatter and body stay in one coherent model, so extraction, mutation, and rendering all share the same view of the document.</p>

What it does</h3>
zigmark parses Markdown and renders it to multiple formats from a single tool:</p>

HTML</strong> for web output</li>
Typst</strong> for PDF-ready documents driven by frontmatter</li>
AST</strong> and AI-friendly representations for inspection and pipelines</li>
Normalized Markdown</strong> for clean, consistent formatting</li>
Structured frontmatter</strong> in YAML, TOML, JSON, or ZON, with first-class support for reading and editing it in place</li> </ul>
We ship it as a CLI, as a Zig library, as a C-callable shared library, and as a WebAssembly module for browser environments.</p>
Licensing</h3>
We release zigmark free for noncommercial use</strong> under the PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 license. Personal projects, research, education, nonprofits, and government institutions can use it without charge.</p>
zigmark depends on several MIT-licensed components, but the project itself is not MIT-licensed. For commercial users who want to rely on zigmark in products or paid services, we offer commercial licenses so that ongoing maintenance and support can be sustainably funded through SC2.</p>
Commercial use — products, SaaS, or client-billed consulting where zigmark is part of the value you deliver — requires a separate license from us.</p>
To discuss commercial licensing, contact inquiries@sc2.in</a>.</p>

Getting started</h3>
For usage examples, build instructions, and API details, see the project on GitHub:</p>
https://github.com/sc2in/zigmark</a></p>

Refund and Dispute Policy

Ben Craton, CISSP PMP — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Ben Craton - Founder, CISSP PMP

Ben Craton, CISSP PMP — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000