Hey folks. I have been building Carve , a modern lightweight markup language for content that outgrows Markdown (and Djot). For humans and agents working on the same docs.

After many months of specs and coding, it should finally be stable enough now.

PHP 8.2+, zero runtime dependencies, PHPStan level 9.

composer require markup-carve/carve-php

What it looks like

/italic/ *bold* _underline_ =highlight= {#fig-sun}  ^ Figure #: A sunset See </#fig-sun> for the colors.

Unlike Markdown, *text* is bold and /text/ is italic. The figure gets its number, and the reference becomes a link reading "Figure 1".

Tables with merged cells and captions, footnotes, admonitions and definition lists are part of the core language.…