[davepeck]

From the original post:

> There is very little innovation in that space and that's a bit unfortunate

I'll have to respectfully disagree with Armin here, but perhaps I map the terrain a little differently than he does.

In addition to the half-dozen tools he names, which are more narrowly targeted at blog-like static sites, the broader space of asset pipelines and static generation is seeing a lot of innovation. I'd point to Gulp and Rails' latest as a sign that there's more work to do here. Even strictly in the Django world, there are a zillion asset-pipeline-like-apps; django-compressor and django-pipeline, the two most used, are quite different in their approach and philosophy.

I'm excited by this proliferation of tools for generating static web content "offline" and expect to see far more in the future. Lektor looks like another interesting piece to the puzzle, particularly in its focus on end-users rather than programmers. (Anyone remember Movable Type? That's probably the first user-centric static site generator to gain widespread use?)

[the_mitsuhiko]

> I'd point to Gulp and Rails' latest as a sign that there's more work to do here.

If you want to throw them into the same category, then sure, there is different stuff happening. But Gulp is even further away from something non programmers can use.

[davepeck]

I definitely do see gulp et. al. as belonging to the same category of tools, although they're much more general-purpose. I think that's where I map the terrain differently than you. I do so because I'm hopeful that future innovations there will find their way back to tools like Lektor, etc.

(And completely agree on the programmer-centric nature of these tools.)