8 engineers on Hacker News describe using Sphinx first-hand: 2 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We migrated to RTD/Sphinx/rST ... and I loath rST every day. It's syntax is just abysmally awful and the tooling sucks”
regret · production · ktosobcy · 2024-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated from Sphinx to Docusaurus[1] recently, the navigation is much better than before.”
regret · production · daviesliu · 2021-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Sphinx absolutely insisted on eating that trailing space.. and there's no way to actually explicitly define an inline code block”
regret · production · ComputerGuru · 2020-03-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using sphinx for georanking, on top of mysql. Works really well.”
endorse · production · thibaut_barrere · 2010-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using either MySQL with Sphinx or MongoDB with the built-in geonear successfully.”
endorse · production · thibaut_barrere · 2010-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated a while ago all our python docs from sphinx and the free readthedocs to mkdocs.”
neutral · production · therealmarv · 2018-08-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently incorporated Sphinx search into a project we were working on.”
neutral · production · hootener · 2015-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There's also the "versionadded" directive in Sphinx, which we use to mark new features as they come in.”
neutral · production · ubernostrum · 2010-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?