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I have nothing to add other than Jekyll has been rock solid for me for, what, like a decade plus now?

I've ran swiftjectivec.com on it, and it's always been the perfect middle ground of taking care of the cruft I don't want to deal with, while allowing me to get my hands dirty and code when I want. Some of my favorite software ever.

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I have some old jekyll websites that I only very infrequently need to update. Each time something in the ruby / gem / bundler / jekyll chain setup is broken, and with some weird errors it is stackoverflow search time. Very time consuming, highly annoying. I postponed my last typo correction, to first make up my mind on whether to port to astro that I use currently.

> , to first make up my mind on whether to port to astro that I use currently.

Just sucks that eventually, that will happen with whatever you use after migrating too, the only difference is how long it takes.

I'm hoping NixOS or even just Nix for dev envs (or something similar) will help against this, so you end up with environments that just keep working.

I actually switched my blog to use Zola (similar to Jekyll but packaged as a static binary instead of a Ruby gem) because I couldn't figure out how to build my site with Jekyll after a few years- it kept trying to compile C code?

Bear in mind this was 5 years ago and I had never used Ruby before, so probably a user error :)

Glad it's been so stable for you!

> it kept trying to compile C code?

That‘s something that works incredibly well on Windows, better than I would have expected to.

The rubyinstaller.org people are shipping a fantastic installation. Under the hood it‘s msys2, but everything simply works out of the box.

I built endoflife.date with it, and it has been great. If I had to do it again, I might pick Mediawiki (or something similar) due to it being a community wiki more than a static site, but Jekyll hasn’t let us down yet.

Really appreciate you building and maintaining it these years! endoflife.date has been an amazing resource ever since you put it up. This has been a great open source success story that I share with people to explain why open source can be great. It's also a great example of the power of crowd-sourcing data. I originally added Ruby[1], Fedora[2], and Alma Linux[3] to endoflife.date and it's rewarded me with years of ability to reference. Prior to this I kept my own notes for the projects I cared most about, but keeping those up to date was a PITA. The best ideas seem obvious in hindsight, and endoflife.date definitely seems obvious :-D

[1] https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/commit/7dae...

[2] https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/commit/ab16...

[3] https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/commit/12a7...

Thanks a ton!

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