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> There are no exotic dependencies, nothing to maintain and you can quickly adapt it to your needs.

Yeah kinda, except that most people making static sites aren't the people who know Make.

I regularly see people on HN who have a static site for their personal site or blog. There's a niche for this kind of thing.

Up until a certain point, yes. Then you start wanting back links, navigation, etc., and doing that with make alone doesn’t quite work, especially if you have a deep tree of files - single folder sites don’t typically have a lot of content in them.

(My site is generated by a Python commit webhook that indexes new files, diffs an Azure storage container and uploads updated files only).

it's a crazy concept, but people are willing to learn to use a new tool for their hobby project.

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