Ask HN: Is Jekyll on GitHub a good solution for hosting a website?

My initial thought was to use a simple website builder like Wix or squarespace, and include a forum plugin to try and create a community.

The main reason I thought about this instead of wordpress is because I do not want the hassle of having to update the code every now and then. These website builders are very secure, as far as I know.

However, I stumbled upon the option of hosting a static website on github pages, using jekyll, and using github discussions as a forum.

Can anyone opine on whether that's a good idea? Specifically, can I be very confident that there is no security flaw, and that I have no requirement to update my code, as long as it's hosted on github pages?

Any advice and comment welcome, thanks!

https://gist.github.com/jasone/b0208286b44208b705156fdf046ca...

The one issue I'm frustrated with is that syntax highlighting for code blocks depends on GitHub's blessing:

https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/2598

For example, this page from my blog highlights OCaml code, but not the language I'm developing (Hemlock):

https://branchtaken.com/blog/2021/11/15/string-formatting-in...

Given the low likelihood of Hemlock sweeping the software world before this becomes a critical presentation issue, I'm probably going to switch my publication workflow to pre-generate html.