On Thursday, 1 January 2015 at 12:05:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
There is also nothing stopping anyone from using Doxygen if they prefer it.
Sure, but there is a big advantage in having a the same tech doc format for all libraries for the same language/group of languages.
I've spent way too much time learning new essential languages, so learning a new one for a fringe activity like writing tech docs is not going to happen.
Picking a common subset of an existing markup language will reduce resistance to learning the one D is using. Doxygen syntax is a good candidate if you want people to write uniform docs for D libraries. Especially if D is going to continue to focus on C++ integration.
