I made this point 5 years ago: Today's static site generators are simply not fit for mass consumption[…] if you selected a random, college-educated writer, arti

I made this point 5 years ago: Today's static site generators are simply not fit for mass consumption[…] if you selected a random, college-educated writer, artist, etc. from a crowd, they are simply on average not actually in the audience for Jekyll or any other contemporary static site generator, despite how slick jekyllrb.com might look <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22991033 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22991033> (And the dirty secret is that, for a great many npm-based tools at least, nodejs/npm isn't actually required, and programmers could be writing and distributing them as a simple browser-based app.html (or whatever) instead, by targeting standardized, widely supported APIs that have been around since the days of HTML5—instead of The NPM Way of targeting NodeJS's proprietary stuff that changes/breaks all the time—but they choose not to. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41481714 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41481714>)