Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

[Chris Molozian]

I very much agree. When it comes to lightweight markup languages for use 
in web (and more) templating there's: Markdown 
<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>, Markdown Extra 
<http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/>, Haml 
<http://haml-lang.com/>, Textile <http://textile.thresholdstate.com/>... 
to name just a few. Is it worth maintaining another tool?

When it comes to documentation within source files couldn't D adopt one 
of the many different 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_documentation_generators>documentation 
generators? Again wouldn't that mean less custom tools to maintain.

Unless of course ddoc does something more than these other tools?

Cheers,

Chris


On 06/29/11 09:38, James Fisher wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com 
> <mailto:doob at me.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 2011-06-28 23:09, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>         5. I know I suck at web site design, which is why David
>         Gileadi helped
>         us out by designing the d-programming-language.org
>         <http://d-programming-language.org> look & feel.
>
>
>     I think it makes it hard when most of the pages are written in
>     DDOC. It doesn't help to attract web designers.
>
>
> I'd definitely agree with that.  I have no experience with DDOC, but 
> TBH I don't intend to ever have any.  As a general criticism of DDOC, 
> it seems like another reinvented wheel.  Semi-plaintext formats 
> surround us like the plague, and for every use case for documentation, 
> there's a better option.  If you want
>
>   * simplicity, use Markdown
>     <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>.  Supported
>     everywhere, like GH.
>   * bulky extensible semantic documentation, use DocBook
>     <http://www.docbook.org/>.  Used by O'Reilly, I'm told.
>      Presumably that's how Real World Haskell
>     <http://book.realworldhaskell.org/> is maintained as a slick
>     website and an O'Reilly book.
>   * readability, but power and extensibility if required, use docutils
>     <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/>/Sphinx
>     <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/>.  Used for the Python standard library
>     documentation <http://docs.python.org/py3k/>, which, as anyone who
>     has used it knows, is The Best Documentation In The World.
>
> That said, I suspect DDOC is now entrenched at least in the stdlib 
> documentation, so maybe we'll have to live with it.  However, the case 
> for using it for the website 
> <https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org/blob/master/index.dd> 
> is nonexistent (anyone disagree?).
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