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Static Site Generators seem like the Twitter client of today (which itself has been the "Hello, World!" of Web 2.0)

Here is a site that compares 270 of them: http://staticsitegenerators.net/

Most (all?) of those 270 static site generators generate HTML files that sit on disk on the server. This tool takes markdown files with a single script tag and serves that up to the client. While I'm pretty sure I've seen this idea before, it is at least different from the typical static site generator.

Many static site generators use (or allow you to use) markdown to write your pages, and then generate static html from it. And I can only see benefits to the no-javascript approach.

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