The nice thing about generators IMO is that when you want to change something on every page (a simple example being a <meta> tag or the page heading) you just h

The nice thing about generators IMO is that when you want to change something on every page (a simple example being a <meta> tag or the page heading) you just have to update the template and run the script, instead of updating every file. I don't really love Jekyll either, that's why I have my own generator written in Node, and my dependencies are defined strictly in my package.json to keep things like markdown parsing from breaking. Heck, generators can just be a sh script with some sed commands.