I entirely agree with the sentiment "writing HTML once is easier than using a static site generator". Hell, even writing it twice is probably easier. The point of a static site generator is there is lots of HTML (like headers and menus) you don't write just once or twice, or if it is generated from data in a database you write at all.
I'm sure the author of the original post would agree in general, so I was left scratching my head what he is actually objecting to. Going by his comment "This becomes obvious when you eg get a new work machine and need to set up the site generator on the new machine and realize that the exact series of bits you had on disk on the old machine were different than what you can achieve on the new machine" maybe it was a rant about how complex tool chains have become.
Or maybe he's just now coming to understand why people stick to what's in Debian Stable, forgoing all the new shinies NPM and the rest of the ecosystem offers. It doesn't take too many replacement laptops before than realisation dawns.
I entirely agree with the sentiment "writing HTML once is easier than using a static site generator". Hell, even writing it twice is probably easier. The point of a static site generator is there is lots of HTML (like headers and menus) you don't write just once or twice, or if it is generated from data in a database you write at all.
I'm sure the author of the original post would agree in general, so I was left scratching my head what he is actually objecting to. Going by his comment "This becomes obvious when you eg get a new work machine and need to set up the site generator on the new machine and realize that the exact series of bits you had on disk on the old machine were different than what you can achieve on the new machine" maybe it was a rant about how complex tool chains have become.
Or maybe he's just now coming to understand why people stick to what's in Debian Stable, forgoing all the new shinies NPM and the rest of the ecosystem offers. It doesn't take too many replacement laptops before than realisation dawns.