Great article! Very on point 😃

THANK YOU to every sponsor who supported us over the years. Your contributions made it possible to build Material for MkDocs into what it is today and gave us the foundation to create Zensical. We're deeply grateful for your trust and support throughout this journey.

A component system is one of the top priorities on our roadmap – we already have a working prototype and will transition it to production-ready in the coming months ☺️

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Thanks for supporting Material for MkDocs for such a long time! Without our sponsors, Zensical wouldn't exist. And thanks for your interest in Zensical – we'll be able to do so much more than with MkDocs 🚀

7/7 Learn more about the road ahead, our vision for Zensical, our roadmap, how we make the project sustainable, and our new offering for professionals: Zensical Spark.

Read the full announcement on our blog:
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6/7 Why now? MkDocs is unmaintained since August 2024 – with no releases in over a year, accumulating issues and PRs – a supply chain risks for us and all of our users.

5/7 Maximum compatibility – Zensical natively reads mkdocs.yml files. Your existing Material for MkDocs projects work with minimal changes – Markdown files, templates, CSS/JS extensions can stay the same.

We'll reach feature parity within the next months:
zensical.org/compatibility/

4/7 Disco, our blazing-fast client-side search engine we've built from scratch, with better ranking and filtering capabilities:

– Lightweight
– Rich-text support
– Filters and aggregations
– Search in paths

We'll also release Disco as a standalone OSS project in 2026.

3/7 ZRX, our new differential build engine, makes repeated builds 4-5x faster:

– $ zensical serve – start writing immediately
– Fix typos in seconds, not minutes

We're just getting started: moving Python Markdown to a Rust-based parser in 2026 – unlocking its full potential.

2/7 Our fresh, modern design breaks free from the Material design aesthetic:

– New look, same structure = trivial to switch
– New mobile sidebar

Want to keep the Material Design look? No problem – it's just a single line of configuration.

Da muss ich Peter zitieren: Clever ist manchmal das Gegenteil von intelligent @sirpepe.bsky.social – das hab ich immer im Kopf, wenn ich mal wieder was verkacke 😅

CommonJS? Hey dude that sounds cool, I'm gonna check it out!

IMHO: Every line of code is a liability, your own included 😉

The Vietnamese restaurant? What a bummer!

I've also written a lot of TypeScript and I feel you.

That's were Rust's trait system really shines. It's much simpler to abstract variadic functions into traits by using macros In Rust, keeping this madness local to the trait, slapping a name onto it and forgetting about it.

2/2 The footer indicates that they are using enumeration to get this out to as many users as possible. If you click the link, you're greated by some crypto scam website, asking you to connect your wallet.