(A Python executable would be fine since pretty much every Linux computer has Python, but I don't want to have to deal with pip).
I moved to it from Jekyll/Hugo, because I hate dealing with Ruby and dependencies like you!
Aside from my pedantry, it causes computers to make more unnecessary computations and our civilization emits more carbon. It also affects me because I currently have an old CPU and it takes a few seconds for syntax highlighting to kick in. Every time I press "Back" in my browser, syntax highlighting needs to be recalculated as well.
Oh well, on the bright side I have an itch to scratch :-).
Some of the other commenters have pointed out that Hugo also has standalone binaries, I just didn't notice them last time I looked. What made you choose Zola over Hugo?
Coupling it with Tailwind for styling meant that developing the theme was really smooth (slowest part of changing a template was waiting for the browser to refresh, i.e. < 1s).
Hugo has a ton of prebuilt executables that you just have to extract and its in a single file https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases
Doesn't go or rust give you a static executable?
Regarding Ruby, Gems on Linux is a mess that I don't want to have to deal with for anything, but especially not for a static site generator.
Rust probably could provide a precompiled binary, but the recommended installation method for Blades involves `cargo` which is why I asked the question.
https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing/#binary-cross-p...
Thanks!
Documentation here: https://rgz.ee/ssg.html
Use a self-contined binaries from random sources and goodbye security.
[0] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en
My case might be unique where the site is being built at the end of a pipeline that sorts through millions of rows of data and gives you the content you want based on your filters, but it's honestly not difficult to get to 50K URLs for many sites that have some age on them.
I run a Python script after the build has completed that reads the entire sitemap and chunks it into parts of 50k.
+1 for mentioning incremental builds as well. These two features are often overlooked and people just ask "why do you even have so many pages?" and it ends there because nobody wants to entertain the power user.
A third disadvantage I've seen is search. I use fuse to generate a JSON for client side search but it takes a lot of memory to render and is a cause for concern.
I always got the impression that they were more for small blogs/sites.
I just built two sites, one with Hugo and other in Eleventy, but this is nice and I can see how useful it can be ie. would love to use it for next excuse for website.
Thanks for sharing.
I’ve used Zola and love the build speed and power that it has. My only real complaint is common mark as the markdown engine. I prefer the tera/jinja2-esque template syntax over ramhorn/mustache-esque that’s used here.
I’ll have to try and port a theme to blades to give it a fair assessment.
CommonMark supports HTML tags, so one can currently also write pages in plain HTML if they want to.
The site says that it's a hobby project, but additional marketing with comparisons is always useful to get more eyes (and possibly more contributors too).
Great job on the 386 theme.
Documentation is understandable and easy to dive into.
Great design, and rather complete feature-set.
TOML looks like a great format, too.
Any aggregated lists of sufficiently mature projects in "new" languages (rust, nim etc)?
That would be helpful for people searching for some idiomatic code.
Also to evaluate performance etc.. characteristics of the language.
