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Why does documentation require hosting it on a server? My assumption is that it's a static site, and as such, even GitHub Pages would be sufficient. I know...

Why does documentation require hosting it on a server? My assumption is that it's a static site, and as such, even GitHub Pages would be sufficient. I know... all content has to be served via a "server" but in case of OVH it's a full-blown hosting solution isn't it? Besides, I'm sure GitHub wouldn't mind supporting Pandas documentation. They do it for a million other projects for free (even though they're not popular among the HN crowd these days)

chaps 7mo ago
Free stuff has a way of short circuiting things.
eduction 7mo ago
Probably because your assumption is wrong - they host a live shell and documentation search. https://web.archive.org/web/20260220092649/https://pandas.pydata.org/try.html https://web.archive.org/web/20260220092649/https://pandas.py... https://web.archive.org/web/20260225185816/https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20260225185816/https://pandas.py... (I don't know anything about pandas, incidentaly, I just did some basic research before posting.)
- GrayShade 7mo ago
  That's not a shell, it's a Python interpreter compiled to WASM and running in the browser.
  - deleted 7mo ago
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  - eduction 7mo ago
    Whatever you call it, it’s plainly calling repeatedly to the server once loaded. You couldn’t just throw it on GitHub or cloudflare as is.
- ErikBjare 7mo ago
  Both of those are statically served
  - eduction 7mo ago
    Wrong. Ajax requests to server triggered when using either. Nice try.
ekjhgkejhgk 7mo ago
Where would you host a static site, if it's not a server? In a pineapple?
sco1 7mo ago
It does appear to potentially be possible: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/64585 https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/64585