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Open Source Alternatives to Doxygen

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What is Doxygen?

Doxygen is a documentation generator tool for various programming languages that produces reference documentation from annotated source code.. There are currently 4 open-source alternatives to Doxygen, with a combined total of 746 GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is C++.

Showing 4 open-source alternatives

hdoc
hdochdoc/hdoc

A modern documentation generator for C++ that automatically creates API docs with integrated Markdown pages and instant search.

33928C++
1 year ago
Natural Docs
Natural DocsNaturalDocs/NaturalDocs

An open-source documentation generator that creates HTML documentation from code comments written in natural language.

22532C#
7 days ago
Doxide
Doxidelawmurray/doxide

A modern documentation generator for C++ that uses YAML configuration, outputs Markdown, and integrates with static site generators.

14213C++
2 months ago
FORD
FORDcmacmackin/ford

Automatic documentation generator for modern Fortran programs, extracting information from source code comments.

4011Python
5 years ago
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