About this episode

The episode discusses Zensical, a new static site generator developed by Martin Donath in response to changes in MKDocs.

If you've built documentation in the Python ecosystem, chances are you've used Martin Donath's work. His Material for MKDocs powers docs for FastAPI, uv, AWS, OpenAI, and tens of thousands of other projects. But when MKDocs 2.0 took a direction that would break Material and 300 ecosystem plugins, Martin went back to the drawing board. The result is Zensical: A new static site generator with a Rust core, differential builds in milliseconds instead of minutes, and a migration path designed to bring the whole community along.

People in this episode

Host: Michael Kennedy

Topics covered

• static site generator
• Python ecosystem
• documentation
• Rust
• community migration
• differential builds

Keywords

• Zensical
• static site generator
• Python
• documentation
• Rust
• MKDocs
• Material for MKDocs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FastAPI, uv, AWS, OpenAI, MKDocs

Products: Zensical, Material for MKDocs

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