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by heartsucker
3528 days ago
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Since this is all about docs, having gone from Java/Scala to Rust, I cannot emphasize enough how much better Rust is at this. With `cargo doc` I get a local set of static files for the exact version of the libraries I'm using. Why can't everything be this easy? |
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Eclipse through the maven plugin (m2e) will auto download the source code and will show doc as you code (along with drilling into the code. Intellij does something comparable as well. Racer can do this as well (and I admit far nicer in that it is editor agnostic).
The problem is the tools for Java/Scala are all over the place so developers have different experience with the language that probably have very little to do with the language itself (syntax and libraries) but rather the tools.
I would agree Rust is not the norm and IMO perhaps even the gold standard of what modern language organization and tooling should be.
Java/Scala should probably have better builtin tools (or atleast mutually agreed on tools like auto formatting, editor agnostic completion /refactoring (ala racer), package management (Java is actually decent on this as maven is the standard), etc).