Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by znpy 2079 days ago
I wonder... If Jekyll worked better, wouldn't have been better to just invest some time in learning enough ruby to make jekyll fit their needs?
2 comments

I thought the same thing. I would like to know more about why they wanted to switch.

I use Jekyll for a few sites that benefit from gitflow around markdown collaboration and it’s pretty solid. I read about other generators and if something is easier or better I’m interested.

But for me, it seems Jekyll solved this problem years ago. And it has good docs, active development, etc.

The few people I know who switched off of it did so for what seems like arbitrary reasons to me. A group I collaborate with switched to gatsby because they said some of their developers couldn’t run Ruby on their workstations. And I guess switching their generator to gatsby was easier than figuring out that problem :)

Probably JS developers didn't feel like learning anything else because "JS THE BEST"... That's the sad reality.