Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary

Re:Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary by kcartlidge on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:47PM (#26362560)

I know the feeling. In my very meta case I get frustrated with my own SSGs, so every time I start learning a new language an SSG is one of my two standard projects to give a frame of comparison.

I now have my own SSGs written in C#, Go, Node, Python, Ruby, and PHP. It's totally ridiculous, I know. Yak shaving and shiny to the nth degree.

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Re:Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary by mbreese on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:57PM (#26362656)

That makes a lot of sense to me. It used to be that writing a blog engine was the "Hello World" of a new language or framework. So, it makes sense that a SSG would be a good non-trivial project to use to learn or understand the pros/cons of a language.

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Re:Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary by ci5er on Monday March 08, 2021 @11:52AM (#26387943)

I prefer ray-tracers (or other rendering or physics engines), maybe because I'm old or have nothing to blog about.

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