We are thrilled to announce Zensical, our next-gen static site generator that addresses and overcomes the technical limitations of MkDocs

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Zensical is a new open-source static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team to overcome MkDocs' technical limitations and supply chain risks. Built from scratch with a differential build engine (ZRX) and featuring a modern design, blazing-fast client-side search (Disco), and 4-5x faster rebuild times, Zensical maintains compatibility with existing mkdocs.yml configurations and Markdown files. The project introduces a professional offering called Zensical Spark for enterprise users, transitions away from GitHub Sponsors, and places Material for MkDocs into maintenance mode. Future development includes a module system, component system, and CommonMark support with a Rust-based parser.

A modern static site generator

I personally do not like the hardcore Material styled pages, as in this case. It reeks of Google and has always this phone(y) feel to it.
Keep Material in Android apps, where it belongs. Do not taint my PC experience with that. 😉

Cool, This is likely Rust + MkDocs. By keeping MkDocs as Python, they spawned a new project called Zensical. I believe this represents the best kind of open-source evolution.