[icebraining]

This doesn't replace Jekyll, it's a CMS for those sites.

The advantage of these tools is that you can get a statically generated site without having to use terminal commands or git. It's perfect if you're setting up a simple site for non-technical clients, then they can manage their own content and you don't have to babysit Wordpress or worry about scaling.

[erquhart]

It's actually great for highly complex, high traffic setups as well - Smashing Magazine was a conglomerate site using Wordpress, Kirby, Rails, and Shopify, and are now entirely static (10x faster literally) and using Netlify CMS for content management. If you haven't checked out their site lately you should!

https://www.smashingmagazine.com

https://www.netlify.com/blog/2017/11/21/smashing-magazine-is...

[ridruejo]

Exactly. Something you can setup for someone computer savvy in marketing to make changes without having to go through an engineer, while preserving all the other good aspects of static sites that you mention