Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary
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Re: Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary
#2I use Zola for my project website. It's quite simple to use.
Re: Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary
#3I tried Zola and liked the speed and simplicity. However support for its templating language is scarce and I'm not super keen on writing extensions in Rust.
I have also looked at Hugo, which is determined to uphold evil and suffering by using Go's horrible templating minilanguage; Nanoc, which is cool but at times inscrutable and perhaps a little too obscure; now I'm playing with Jekyll. In short I am doing everything except actually writing.
Re: Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary
#4I tried Zola and liked the speed and simplicity. However support for its templating language is scarce and I'm not super keen on writing extensions in Rust. I have also looked at Hugo, which is determined to uphold evil and suffering by using Go's horrible templating minilanguage; Nanoc, which is cool but at times inscrutable and perhaps a little too obscure; now I'm playing with Jekyll. In short I am doing everythin…
> by using Go's horrible templating minilanguage
Any specifics that stand out to you? I haven’t done a lot with templating, but when I was investigating Hugo a while back it seemed straightforward enough. But that was at a high level.
Re: Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary
#5I tried Zola and liked the speed and simplicity. However support for its templating language is scarce and I'm not super keen on writing extensions in Rust. I have also looked at Hugo, which is determined to uphold evil and suffering by using Go's horrible templating minilanguage; Nanoc, which is cool but at times inscrutable and perhaps a little too obscure; now I'm playing with Jekyll. In short I am doing everythin…
I've been using Gatsby recently and it's been pretty good, as long as you're not opposed to node and JS.
Re: Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary
#6I tried Zola and liked the speed and simplicity. However support for its templating language is scarce and I'm not super keen on writing extensions in Rust. I have also looked at Hugo, which is determined to uphold evil and suffering by using Go's horrible templating minilanguage; Nanoc, which is cool but at times inscrutable and perhaps a little too obscure; now I'm playing with Jekyll. In short I am doing everythin…
What sort of templating support did you find to be scarce with Zola?
Re: Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary
#7I though this was about the wedding registry site at first.
Anyway, I liked this line from the Github:
> Hugo gets ehh for the template engine because while it is probably the most powerful template engine in the list (after Jinja2) it personally drives me insane, to the point of writing my own template engine and static site generator. Yes, this is a bit biased.
This seems to be the life cycle of static site generators (SSG). It works at first, but you end up wanting to design your own custom SSG once you run up against something that goes against your mental model of how things should work.
I did this exact thing when I got frustrated with Hugo. I made my own custom SSG in order to create my blog.
The other thing that tends to happen with SSGs is that it can be a lot more fun to play around with the tech than actually writing blog posts!
If you're interested you can read here to see how I made an SSG for my blog:
Re: Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary
#8Jamstack lists 322 static site generators plus there are probably many homemade solutions using standard unix tools etc. I am wondering if there are any unique selling points not yet covered by less than a dozen projects. Fast compilation and zero dependencies seems no fit to that category. Do not get me wrong, I really appreciate the creativity and variety of open solution, I am just wondering what it needs to get highly ranked on HN. In this case, it is because of the "Rust" keyword?
Re: Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary
#9I see your single binary static site generator and raise you a single Makefile static site generator:
Re: Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary
#10Jamstack lists 322 static site generators plus there are probably many homemade solutions using standard unix tools etc. I am wondering if there are any unique selling points not yet covered by less than a dozen projects. Fast compilation and zero dependencies seems no fit to that category. Do not get me wrong, I really appreciate the creativity and variety of open solution, I am just wondering what it needs to get h…
What "Rust" keyword? The word "Rust" is not included in the title, or anywhere on the home page.