RE: https://fosstodon.org/@kev/115610812535590932

SSGs are a fascinating case study in how things that may appear simple at the start turn into a giant mess when fully realized.

"Just put some markdown in a folder structure and turn them all into HTML, generate an index page and RSS and you're done. What could be simpler?"

Appealing. But completely misleading. The devil is in the details and the details include things like image and other assets, trailing slashes, relative linking, filtering / ordering of posts, CSS, reusable templates, 409 different markdown flavors, how files in a directory tree actually don't map perfectly with paths on the web, etc...

The result? It's a big and ever-growing mess. Personally I have adopted Hugo and astro, but both are bad IMO.