> You don't have to be on the Node treadmill to create a static site generator. You can use something stable! Node isn't always a treadmill. JavaScript itself

> You don't have to be on the Node treadmill to create a static site generator. You can use something stable! Node isn't always a treadmill. JavaScript itself is very stable, much more than many other languages. The big thing you need is something to transform markdown to HTML. You can either write it yourself, or take one that's stable. The rest can be done in plain JS, without libraries.