Asciidoctor
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 4, 2025first mention
Jan 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“vanilla solutions out there like AsciiDoctor and Sphinx”
has worked on docs at many companieson “You Don't Need Mintlify”
“Asciidoctor worked for this, although there were some compromises”
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“it's quite old, it's battle-tested, and offers me many options to produce various forms of output”
switched from Hugoon “Ask HN: What are you using for blogging?”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- You Don't Need Mintlify 1 mention
- Markdown is holding you back 1 mention
- Ask HN: What are you using for blogging? 1 mention
Also written as AsciiDoctor. Data: asciidoctor.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 3
“vanilla solutions out there like AsciiDoctor and Sphinx”
“Asciidoctor worked for this, although there were some compromises”
“it's quite old, it's battle-tested, and offers me many options to produce various forms of output”