# Getting Discourse running on JRuby

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [February 23, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-discourse-running-on-jruby/81273 "2018-02-23T00:14:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-discourse-running-on-jruby/81273/13 "2018-02-26T16:18:52Z")

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> [@kares](#):
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> really depends what the JS engine is used for - if mostly for compiling with the asset pipeline than both are expected to work fine.

On Discourse, our **main** use for V8 is the markdown cooking.

Since we have a live preview and extensible markdown pipeline, we guarantee the same behavior on the browser and on server side by running the exact same code.

Our markdown library is [GitHub - markdown-it/markdown-it: Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed · GitHub](https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it)

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