I'm not being facetious, but this "yet another static site generator" joins the list with 230+ other generators.
(see http://staticsitegenerators.net/)
Why do we need another one?
(see http://staticsitegenerators.net/)
Why do we need another one?
Also, everyone has slightly different requirements, so everyone likes to build their own.
I will most likely soon build my own static site generator, because none of the ones out there do exactly what I want. I will most likely borrow from at least a few of the examples out there and then post it on my github so there is yet another one.
I think we're seeing a proliferation simply because it is so easy to share code these days. Imagine how many Fibonacci generators would have been out there if it were as easy to share code when those were popular (I want to say 10 years ago but maybe it was longer).
def fib(n):
x = ((1 + sqrt(5)) / 2) ** n
x -= ((1 - sqrt(5)) / 2) ** n
return x / sqrt(5) from math import sqrt
from decimal import Decimal
def fib(n):
x = Decimal((1 + sqrt(5)) / 2) ** n
x -= Decimal((1 - sqrt(5)) / 2) ** n
return x / Decimal(sqrt(5))
print fib(1000)
print fib(10000)
print fib(1290309123)
$ time python ~/fib.py
4.346655768693891359691727380E+208
3.364476487644307695949089018E+2089
2.879417086171668653426018537E+269658658
real 0m0.138s
user 0m0.086s
sys 0m0.026sWhy bother with the templating? Use Jinja2?
Because this one is much simpler to use than Jekyll and doesn't require you to install Ruby.