What is it that makes Rust documentation so special, and how could we make that lightning strike twice in other languages?

• pdoc

  10 1,819 8.2 Python

  API Documentation for Python Projects

  

Anyway, this is all my opinion. And a lot of it is based on reflecting on my own experience. I have no idea how well it generalizes. I have given this topic a lot of thought though, and have even written documentation generators for other ecosystems because I thought the other choices were bad enough to warrant spending a few weeks on such a tool.

• crates.io

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a) De-facto standardisation: The Rust organisation established a set of goto tools for common applications relativly early in it's growth process and integrated them tightly into the compiler distribution. This ment that there is only one formating tool, build system and documentation tool and not 50 incompatible solutions. This means that competitors have a hard time being created and if they are, it is giving them a strong incentive to maintain compatibility. This makes it easier to access data in a standartisied manner, removing any chance of an unusable data issue. Sites like doc.rs and crates.io profit from this greatly.

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• rfcs

  2 0 0.0 Shell

  RFCs for changes to Rust (by GuillaumeGomez)

I need to open the RFC at some point so it's stabilized and run by default... You can take a look at it here: https://github.com/GuillaumeGomez/rfcs/pull/1

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