Show HN: Zest – FOSS Docs Browser with DevDocs and Stack Overflow
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Re: Show HN: Zest – FOSS Docs Browser with DevDocs and Stack Overflow
#2This looks interesting.
Re: Show HN: Zest – FOSS Docs Browser with DevDocs and Stack Overflow
#3Anyone knows enough to compare with Dash?
Re: Show HN: Zest – FOSS Docs Browser with DevDocs and Stack Overflow
#4Anyone knows enough to compare with Dash?
I think this is going to have a different target audience. Dash includes tons of documentation from very diverse set of sources, including .NET and Apple docs. Zest supports only DevDocs and Stack Overflow. It is also open source and works on more platforms, so may be eventually better for people preferring FOSS.
Zest is also pretty much an experimental proof of concept at this point and thus far from being as polished as Dash.
However, I think full text search is a very cool feature which Dash is currently missing, which was the main factor which motivated me to go ahead and try implementing it.
Re: Show HN: Zest – FOSS Docs Browser with DevDocs and Stack Overflow
#5I hope this eclipses Dash.
Re: Show HN: Zest – FOSS Docs Browser with DevDocs and Stack Overflow
#6I was going to mention Zeal (a free Dash replacement), and then founds this from the Zest author[0]
> Some people may know me as the original developer of Zeal, the Dash-inspired offline documentation browser for Linux and Windows.
[0] https://medium.com/@jerzy.kozera/from-zeal-devdocs-to-zest-m...
Re: Show HN: Zest – FOSS Docs Browser with DevDocs and Stack Overflow
#7The local copy of StackOverflow is interesting.
Did they allow this/is this illegal? Is there any precedent for using forum data like this?
Re: Show HN: Zest – FOSS Docs Browser with DevDocs and Stack Overflow
#8The local copy of StackOverflow is interesting. Did they allow this/is this illegal? Is there any precedent for using forum data like this?
Stack Overflow posts are CC-licensed and all the data is available at https://archive.org/details/stackexchange - this is where Zest downloads it from.
Dash also provides SO search, though only in titles (no full text search).
Re: Show HN: Zest – FOSS Docs Browser with DevDocs and Stack Overflow
#9Love it.