$ mdust

the html markdown-it writes, byte for byte, about 10 times faster. rust compiled to webassembly.

• a drop-in for markdown-it with the default preset and html: true.
• you get one wasm file and one function, render(src).
• 10.14x faster than markdown-it, as the geometric mean over the headline set, measured 2026-10-19.

source on github mdust-rs on npm