LuaDoc AlternativesDocumentation Generators and other similar apps like LuaDoc

LuaDoc is described as 'Documentation Generator Tool for the Lua language' and is a documentation generator in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to LuaDoc for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Microsoft Visual Studio apps. The best LuaDoc alternative is Doxygen, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LuaDoc are MkDocs, VitePress, Sphinx and swagger.io.

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  1. Doxygen icon
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    Doxygen is a tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources, as well as other popular programming languages like C, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL (CORBA, Microsoft, and UNO/OpenOffice flavors), Fortran, VHDL, Tcl, and to some extent D.

    36 Doxygen alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  2. Sphinx icon
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    Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license.

    49 Sphinx alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Presidium icon
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    Presidium is a software documentation management system for agile teams, and their users, made from commonly used open source components.

    13 Presidium alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • GitHub Pages
     
  4. Daux.io icon
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    Daux.io is a documentation generator that uses a simple folder structure and Markdown files to create custom documentation on the fly. It helps you create great looking documentation in a developer friendly way.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  5. Sandcastle icon
     6 likes

    Sandcastle produces accurate, MSDN style, comprehensive documentation by reflecting over the source assemblies and optionally integrating XML Documentation Comments. Sandcastle has the following key features:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • .NET Framework
     
  6.  5 likes

    NDoc generates class library documentation from .NET assemblies and the XML documentation files generated by the C# compiler (or with an add-on tool for VB.NET).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • .NET Framework
     
  7. DocFX icon
     5 likes

    DocFX generates Documentation directly from source code (.NET, RESTful API, JavaScript, Java, etc...) and Markdown files.

    36 DocFX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Document! X icon
     2 likes

    Document! X is a combination of an automated documentation tool and a full authoring environment which can be used to create, publish and maintain accurate, professional quality documentation for .NET, Web Services, Databases, XSDs, Java ,Javascript.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • .NET Framework
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
     
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