Strongly disagree. Pandoc is the only solution I could find that outputs static HTML and supports maths. It's a really great solution. And it's pretty fast. I don't know in what way it could be overkill.
Using a hacky M4 script instead of Pandoc is completely insane. Find if you want to do insane things I guess but it's still insane.
> This arm64 system not only didn’t have pandoc installed, but pandoc wasn’t even in the software repository. I considered compiling it myself, but the language it is written in, Haskel, doesn’t even compile on arm64.
Then they justified it by explaining that their usecase didn't really need pandoc anyway.
And GHC support for ARM in general has been spotty. I know pandoc wouldn't build on Apple Silicon last time I tried to install it, but that was a few months ago.
That's a nice thing about C. It'll compile and run on basically anything.
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases
But it looks like this was before that (didn't have the 2020 when I read it).