Show HN: Guidedog an OSS static site generator for rst and md

Category: devtools

Tags: static-site-generator, documentation, pdf-generation, rust, markdown, rst

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Guidedog is a Rust-based static site generator that builds both HTML documentation websites and PDF books from reStructuredText or Markdown sources, inspired by Sphinx but with a declarative TOML configuration and no Python execution. It stands out for its integrated toolchain—embedding Typst for PDF typesetting, tree-sitter for parsing, and Graphviz for diagrams—and its support for API extraction, translation workflows, and GitHub Pages publishing, all in a single self-contained executable.

Target audience: technical writers, backend developers, and documentation engineers

Repository: https://github.com/insanai/guidedog · Rust · LGPL-3.0

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