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IMO, search is a pretty significant part of docs and I haven't seen a good way doing that without either javascript or a web server.

But other than that, yeah, you don't really need JS.

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Rust's documentation uses javascript for search but it uses no js framework at all. IIRC the normal experience works without any JS. In fact it doesn't even use any traditional js tooling, allowing people to contribute to rustdoc without having to install npm.

> allowing people to contribute to rustdoc without having to install npm

In the meanwhile, the crates.io team doubled down on Ember to attract front-end developers while presumably alienating a lot of other potential contributors.

Recall that cargo and crates was built by one of the Ember founders, Yehuda Catz.

Were they? I don't see wycats among the crates.io contributors on GitHub. He did contribute a bit to cargo in 2015, though.

The crates.io website is weird, it seems out of place and not at the same level as the other part of Rust's ecosystem.

You can just pass the query to an external search engine , adding a `site:xxx` restriction.

Every time a site has done that I immediately go back because the experience sucks so much.

Better than most site search engines, which I admittedly a pretty low bar.

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