Explore C interop with Kotlin/Native for sharing a common markdown parser
saket opened this issue · comments
Press currently delegates parsing of markdown to platforms using expect/actual, but managing the expected class signature of parsed nodes is a pain right now. The K/N community is new so there isn't any markdown parser written in kotlin, but there are sufficient libraries written in C that Press can leverage through C interop with K/N: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/native/c_interop.html
We could use cmark: https://github.com/commonmark/cmark
Assigning this to @hackertronix who's working on adding bindings for cmark.
@hackertronix I've added some basic tests on saket/apr26/markdown-parser-test to help you test your bindings.
Update: Huh, I can't assign people randomly to an issue. That probably makes sense. @hackertronix wanna assign this yourself?
Actually, let me just disable those tests and merge them to master.
I am unable to assign it to myself :(
Looks like someone has to comment before they can be assigned. Done!
Turns out cinterop can only generate bindings for kotlin/native. We'll still have to use JNI for Android which sucks. I filed a feature request to support generation of bindings for all platforms but don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.
Superseded by #51