Best Multi-Language Documentation Generator *

Question

What is the best documentation generator? I want to something that will easily add templates for documenting functions, classes, etc. I know there are several tools out there -- from Visual Studio plugins to external applications that take code files as input.

• which is the best? (If language-specific, specify)
• are there any documentation tools that could be used for multiple languages (e.g. VB.net and JavaScript)

Bonus points if they're free / open source.

Answer

http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ is probably a good place to start.

From the site: "Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and to some extent D."

For JavaScript, there's http://jsdoc.sourceforge.net/, but it's not multi-language.

For VB.NET, there's http://vbdox.sourceforge.net/, also not multi-language.

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