I generated API documentation for all Java packages

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Hi HN! I'm excited to share a project I've been working on for the past year: Docland. It is an API documentation browser that generates documentation on demand (through compilation, not LLMs) for Java packages. Instead of relying on Javadoc, the built-in doc generator, I created the engine from scratch to give the documentations a modern look, build fast search indexes, and enable link resolution to other packages. I built Docland because I constantly found it frustrating to locate and view API definitions when programming. You'd have to Google the function/class name, skip all the SEO articles, find the page you want, yet the documentation might be poorly formatted or does not support searching. So I thought it would be really cool to create a documentation site dedicated for programming languages and libraries, so that you can find the docs all in one place with a uniform look. Docland currently only supports Java, but more programming languages can be supported thanks to its modular architecture. Please try it out and let me know what you think! Also, the process of building Docland was extremely fun and challenging. I'm happy to share about that too. Thank you! Martin

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