Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit

Re:Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit by asicsp on Monday August 29, 2022 @12:00PM (#32639781)

I moved from Jekyll to Zola and it's been great until I started tinkering with templates and stuff recently. Single binary and simple themes were main reasons to choose this. Wanted a feature that wasn't present in the version I started with (about 2 years ago). So, I got the newest version and a few things broke subtly (ex: syntax highlighting). Which led me to tinkering (I don't know much about HTML/CSS/etc).

It was actually good to try a few things almost blindly and then slowly narrowing with a bit more thought process. Been a long time since I had such fun investigating unknown codebase. This even helped me move my post processing scripts to templates. And then I went a step further by reading about meta tags (things like image, description, etc) and adding them via an extra variable in the post frontmatter.

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Re:Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit by impoppy on Monday August 29, 2022 @12:07PM (#32639867)

That's exactly why I never used Jekyll and don't really understand people that use it nowadays. It is AWFUL. Not only it uses greatly outdated Ruby, you also HAVE to install outdated Ruby on your machine to play with themes, serve, compile and are forced to use RVM. I know GitHub Pages can compile the page for you, but when you want to customize a theme you have to go through all that hell. It's just a terrible experience. And installing plugins is another hell.

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Re:Rewriting my blog in Rust for fun and profit by BrandonS113 on Monday August 29, 2022 @12:29PM (#32640134)

I use Jekyll for a few sites and it works perfectly. Design is bootstrap and so nothing to do with Jekyll and it always compiles the site, takes a few seconds. Works fine on my mac and linux.

Would I have picked Jekyll today? no. Is it worth the cost of switching? no.

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