Show HN: Markview – a fast Markdown reader in Rust, Obsidian Vault compatible
Hey HN! I built Markview after coming across RaTeX which is a library renders LaTeX natively without JavaScript or webview. I thought "How hard could it be to render the rest of Markdown natively too?" So the result is a lightweight reader with no browser engine. Reading Markdown feels fast and fluent, yet it uses much less of your valueable RAM then most other apps. On my laptop, it opens documents 5–20× faster than Obsidian and MarkText, depending on the content, despite I implemente
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Repository: szdytom/markview. Source account: Hey HN! I built Markview after coming across RaTeX which is a library renders LaTeX natively without JavaScript or webview. I thought "How hard could it be to render the rest of Markdown natively too?" So the result is a lightweight reader with no browser engine. Reading Markdown feels fast and fluent, yet it uses much less of your valueable RAM then most other apps. On my laptop, it opens documents 5–20× faster than Obsidian and MarkText, depending on the content, despite I implemente
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