<story><title>Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary</title><url>https://www.getzola.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>regus</author><text>I though this was about the wedding registry site at first.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I liked this line from the Github:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; 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.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;p&gt;I did this exact thing when I got frustrated with Hugo. I made my own custom SSG in order to create my blog.&lt;p&gt;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!&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re interested you can read here to see how I made an SSG for my blog:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;joelregus.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;joelregus.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;index.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spf13</author><text>I did this exact thing when I got frustrated with Jekyll (and friends) and created Hugo.  Of course, at the time all SSGs were in dynamic languages and very VERY slow.&lt;p&gt;Happy to see some Hugo ideas made it into Zola.</text></comment>
<story><title>Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary</title><url>https://www.getzola.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>regus</author><text>I though this was about the wedding registry site at first.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, I liked this line from the Github:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; 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.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;p&gt;I did this exact thing when I got frustrated with Hugo. I made my own custom SSG in order to create my blog.&lt;p&gt;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!&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re interested you can read here to see how I made an SSG for my blog:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;joelregus.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;joelregus.com&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;index.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Keats</author><text>&amp;gt; I though this was about the wedding registry site at first.&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t even know what a wedding registry was until after the rename. It is named after &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fr.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;%C3%89mile_Zola&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fr.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;%C3%89mile_Zola&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I did this exact thing when I got frustrated with Hugo. I made my own custom SSG in order to create my blog.
&amp;gt; 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!&lt;p&gt;Exactly that. A great way to learn a language too.</text></comment>