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> for a static site generator for docs?

docs.rs has a lot more to do than just that. But also, actually building those static pages takes a lot. To do so, it has to actually build every crate, sandboxed, of course. This makes it closer to "universal CI for the entire ecosystem" than "generate a few html pages."

If you look at the dependencies, they're pretty normal for a website that does this kind of thing. It's roughly 80 dependencies, then 11 used for development only, and a couple more that are build-time only. The larger number is the sum of all transitive dependencies.




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