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The homepage misses how its different/better than all the other solutions. Rust ftw?

Keats 9y ago
For my own usecase, Sass and syntax highlighting built-in are the things I wanted - Hugo now has highlighting built-in too though - and all of that in a single binary. I don't want to mess with virtualenvs or JS packages. Compared to Hugo (which is what I was using until then), it has: - the mentioned Sass compilation - a much better template engine (I'm a bit biased there since I also wrote it) - assets colocations: keep images etc next to the post I also find it much easier to use than Hugo but I wrote Gutenberg for my own usecase so this point would need external validation. I wrote a bit about the motivation when I released the initial version on my blog: https://vincent.is/announcing-gutenberg/ https://vincent.is/announcing-gutenberg/ but I agree it should be better communicated on the landing page. Rust is an implementation detail: it could have been done in any language compiling to a binary, I just picked the one I prefer.
- weberc2 9y ago
  This is cool, and props for scratching your own itch, but this does seem like an incremental/niche improvement over Hugo. I'm curious if you talked to the Hugo community about supporting those features? I don't mean to imply that you should have done so--"I wanted to build my own" is a totally valid reason not to bother.
  - Keats 9y ago
    I don't really like the template engine available in Go (especially the godawful one in the std) so I would have needed to write one or use pongo2 but probably wouldn't have been accepted in Hugo: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/1359 https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/1359 The assets colocations issue was raised in 2014 and it might come soon but I don't think it's there yet: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/keep-images-content-together/51 https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/keep-images-content-together/5.... Same thing for Sass compilation: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/support-for-html-css-js-preprocessors/127 https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/support-for-html-css-js-prepro...
    - scrollaway 9y ago
      FWIW I'm glad you wrote this. Having looked at Jekyll alternatives before, the field is severely lacking especially in terms of static sites generators that don't immediately assume you're publishing a blog.
    - weberc2 9y ago
      Cool! Thanks for the information. Good luck with Gutenberg!
spython 9y ago
Cobalt static site generator is quite popular with Rust developers: https://github.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs https://github.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs

For my own usecase, Sass and syntax highlighting built-in are the things I wanted - Hugo now has highlighting built-in too though - and all of that in a single binary. I don't want to mess with virtualenvs or JS packages. Compared to Hugo (which is what I was using until then), it has: - the mentioned Sass compilation - a much better template engine (I'm a bit biased there since I also wrote it) - assets colocations: keep images etc next to the post I also find it much easier to use than Hugo but I wrote Gutenberg for my own usecase so this point would need external validation. I wrote a bit about the motivation when I released the initial version on my blog: https://vincent.is/announcing-gutenberg/ https://vincent.is/announcing-gutenberg/ but I agree it should be better communicated on the landing page. Rust is an implementation detail: it could have been done in any language compiling to a binary, I just picked the one I prefer.

weberc2 9y ago
This is cool, and props for scratching your own itch, but this does seem like an incremental/niche improvement over Hugo. I'm curious if you talked to the Hugo community about supporting those features? I don't mean to imply that you should have done so--"I wanted to build my own" is a totally valid reason not to bother.
- Keats 9y ago
  I don't really like the template engine available in Go (especially the godawful one in the std) so I would have needed to write one or use pongo2 but probably wouldn't have been accepted in Hugo: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/1359 https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/1359 The assets colocations issue was raised in 2014 and it might come soon but I don't think it's there yet: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/keep-images-content-together/51 https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/keep-images-content-together/5.... Same thing for Sass compilation: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/support-for-html-css-js-preprocessors/127 https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/support-for-html-css-js-prepro...
  - scrollaway 9y ago
    FWIW I'm glad you wrote this. Having looked at Jekyll alternatives before, the field is severely lacking especially in terms of static sites generators that don't immediately assume you're publishing a blog.
  - weberc2 9y ago
    Cool! Thanks for the information. Good luck with Gutenberg!

spython 9y ago

Cobalt static site generator is quite popular with Rust developers: https://github.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs https://github.com/cobalt-org/cobalt.rs