[mbreese]

That makes a lot of sense to me. It used to be that writing a blog engine was the "Hello World" of a new language or framework. So, it makes sense that a SSG would be a good non-trivial project to use to learn or understand the pros/cons of a language.

[ci5er]

I prefer ray-tracers (or other rendering or physics engines), maybe because I'm old or have nothing to blog about.