cobalt.rs VS mdBook

Cobalt is nice if you want simple: https://cobalt-org.github.io/

It's not python, but it is a single binary to be off and running.

Static Site Generator: Zola, Cobalt

My preferences are - http://cobalt-org.github.io/ - Very straightforward, easy to pickup, but not many features - Eleventy https://www.11ty.dev/ - Also very straightforward, but slower - Zola - https://www.getzola.org/ - More features and fast, but harder to learn - Hugo - Like Zola, lots of functionallity, but also harder to learn

If you don't care about distinguishing between stdout and stderr or want sequencing, .md files are nice. cobalt's test runner and test definitions

Cobalt escrito en Rust

I'm responsible for a number of Java products. I try to provide high-quality Javadoc for all public library interfaces, library user's guides where appropriate, and development guides for applications. The latter two take the form of MDBook documents (https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/), with the document source living in the GitHub repo so that it's tied to the particular software release in a natural way.

My org has used mdBook: https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/ (That link is itself a rendered mdBook, so that'll give you an idea of the feature set.)

(While it's definitely a Rust "thing", if you just have a set of .md files, all you need is a "SUMMARY.md" (which contains the ToC) and a small config file; i.e., you don't have to have any Rust code to use it, and it works fine without. We document a large, mostly non-Rust codebase with it.)

If you want the lowest friction, open source, easily extensible Markdown to Web, Kindle, PDF, etc. tool, highly recommend mdBook: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook it’s written in Rust, but you don’t have to know any Rust to use it. And then wing is all CSS; for which there are many good (free) themes.