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Why rusty?

I think that documentation does not need to be a necessary evil. With a flexible tools even developers kind enjoy writing documentation.

Documentation framework Sphinx is an excellent tryout to make writing technical documents easier. With the ReStructuredText -documentation format it shows that it does not necessary have to be Word document - while providing advanced functionality to write or generate documentation. As fun as the document writing can be, we still want to get it does easily and fast, right?

So, why rusty, then? Rusty is my push to support non-binary documents and provide some examples how the people can take the advantage from the ReST - and this is done by writing extensions that I’ve found useful while writing documents.

What’s with the name?

I like names that does not necessary mean anything but may sound like one. So, the name Rusty comes from:

  • Trust, trustworthy
  • tRuSTy => RST => ReStructuredText
  • Rust (?)
  • Python => py => rusTY
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