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From my point of view, you're trading ease of editing but gaining speed, security and scalability. If the only thing on the site is static files behind a CDN, it's going to be fast and hard to hack.

Jekyll created static websites, with no database for an attack vector. I learned this the hard way after having a few digital ocean droplets compromised, no backups, etc. Thats one advantage.

-Static Website

-Easy config

-No need to leave Emacs

-Easy automation (no WYSIWYG)

-Potential for a WYSIWYG if you want one (Lektor, for instance, another static site generator, provides one)