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So I have been playing around with Dart and while it seems cool as a language the tooling performance is absolutely abysmal. As the title says, dart --help takes 500ms just to print the help. I tested it out on Intel & AMD (as if it's such a complex task).
In any case, I also posted an issue in the repo but it was closed with a very vague "it needs to run a bunch of Dart code to print help message and that takes time". [0]
Can someone with more experience in this language explain what I am doing wrong? In comparison, node --help takes 51ms.
I don't think it's such a straining task for it to take this long. Consequently, dart format is also similarly slow taking 300ms to format a file with 3 lines.
The thing I am asking is, is it just me or this is the new norm?
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I know GitBook exists but it's not OSS and is fairly complex on its own: a whole platform with its own learning curve.
I am looking for something that can:
- generate documentation from markdown - minimal but modern design (doesn't have to be configurable) - zero setup/dependencies i.e. plug'n'play
Here's the workflow I am looking for:
- clone
- install xyz for platform
- make edits
- xyz dev/start
I have explored Hugo and Zola but I don't like the multiple directories they create for themes, CSS, js etc. I want the generator to be self-contained.
The reason I am here asking is if someone has a personal project that does something like this that they'd like to share. Or if someone is working on something similar and would like users.