This guy totally misses the point, even as to why Tom Preston-Werner kicked off Jekyll. His goals were: * Have blog posts be plain-text files, in Markdown or s

This guy totally misses the point, even as to why Tom Preston-Werner kicked off Jekyll. His goals were: * Have blog posts be plain-text files, in Markdown or some other such similar human-readable format. Not locked away in a MySQL database that can't be easily versioned with Git. * Versioning: plain text lends itself really well to versioning. Diffs are meaningful. It's easy and light-weight, and pragmatic to version a bunch of simple markdown files. * Finally: fine-tuned output control. This is what Liquid lets you accomplish. You can specify your HTML pages in Liquid, and easily give your blog a new look. The simplicity, ease, and freedom that this system gives a person with basic web dev skills, shouldn't be ignored.