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Top 8 C++ Documentation Projects
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For offline documentation, I use these in order of preference:
• Info¹ documentation, which I read directly in Emacs. (If you have ever used the terminal-based standalone “info” program, please try to forget all about it. Use Emacs to read Info documentation, and preferably use a graphical Emacs instead of a terminal-based one; Info documentation occasionally has images.)
• Gnome Devhelp².
• Zeal³
• RFC archive⁴ dumps provided by the Debian “doc-rfc“ package⁵.
1. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/info/
2. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Devhelp
3. https://zealdocs.org/
4. https://www.rfc-editor.org/
5. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/doc-rfc
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Documentation projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | zeal | 12,277 |
| 2 | standardese | 956 |
| 3 | ipc | 430 |
| 4 | Doxide | 107 |
| 5 | ErriezDS3231 | 26 |
| 6 | CubiCAD | 17 |
| 7 | fpage | 8 |
| 8 | ErriezTTP229TouchKeypad | 5 |
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