I run C on the server. Static content blocks from a directory are converted to #defines by a Python script, so I literally #include "staticpages.inc" and refere

I run C on the server. Static content blocks from a directory are converted to #defines by a Python script, so I literally #include "staticpages.inc" and reference them by name. Another Python script generates the code for building the navigation menu (dynamically based on the current page). Another one generates the code to parse the URL and select a request handler. Most pages are header+navbar+content+footer, so I wrote a utility function: The blog section is a memory-mapped set of C structures, but in the next rewrite I'll directly embed blog posts in the program, too. I did it this way instead of using a static site generator because I realized that there's no such thing as a static site. My server has to run code to serve any website, including a "static site", so why arbitrarily limit it to the code for loading static files? https://www.immibis.com/blog/12 https://www.immibis.com/blog/12 Not a single library is used, besides libc - at least in the backend code. I use nginx as a reverse proxy and SCGI as the interface from nginx to the C backend.