[coldtea]

>It looks nice, but I guess I still don’t understand the proliferation of simple static site generators. It’s pretty easy (and fun!) to build your own that works exactly as you want it to.

Notice how these two sentences are contradictory -- or rather how the second explains what the first supposedly can't understand.

If it's "pretty easy and fun" to build X, then that would inevitably lead to a "proliferation of" X projects.

It just takes a person that built one to then share their implementation on GitHub to increase that proliferation, and that's a very simple additional step.

And it just takes any person who understands "opportunity cost" to want to adopt an existing static site generator rather than build their own.

Both kinds are in abundance.

[bgrohman]

Yep, thanks, I realized that eventually :)