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Back in the day, before WordPress sadly became dominant, I made my own static site builder with Perl and Make. Yes, feel free to point and laugh. But it was awe
by ttul 8y ago
Back in the day, before WordPress sadly became dominant, I made my own static site builder with Perl and Make. Yes, feel free to point and laugh. But it was awesome. It’s nice to see static site builders like Hugo gaining momentum. With so much going on on the client these days, having a static back end is a great idea (again).
- tonyarkles 8y ago> Yes, feel free to point and laugh Why would we do that? Text manipulation (translating from a simple markup format into HTML) is Perl's bread and butter! And make is pretty easy to set up to have new general-purpose rules (e.g. .md -> .html).
- tiernano 8y agoThis sounds like what Movable Type was way back... i used it around the year 2000/2001, and it worked great... then the dark days of Wordpress came along, and ugh... Its only in the last year or so that i moved back to static sites, and just last week moved my site to Hugo. very happy with it so far too!
- clairity 8y agoback in the day, a friend of mine also made a perl-based static site generator for her blog, and i totally made fun of her for it, because, who would want a static site?!?! and perl?? ugh. i thought my (dynamic) blog custom-built in php was the bee's knees because i could have comments and my own admin interface. how silly i was. =) particularly with the advance of front-end development (and automatable deployment pipelines), static generation makes so much more sense now.
- cutler 8y agoIf Perl why not Template::Toolkit? I still use it after 15 years. What I like about it is that it gets out of your way and doesn't assume your site is a blog. It just converts template files to corresponding HTML files and that's it.