| > There are hundreds of SSGs out there, why bother building yet another one if one already exists for It's really not that rosy tbf. I went through something like: SvelteKit, 11ty, Astro, Zola, hugo, and possibly others in-between. It's pretty easy to develop a preference where none of the mainstream SSGs fare well at. Some established large SSGs might do X but they have their own challenges too. You start migrating by filtering based on some criteria, and find a match that does a great job initially, only to get bitten later, when you've migrated and settled and start seeing the cracks. For example, Zola, and many others, doesn't support asciidoc. The handful that do have their own problems too. (I'm now with hugo which support asciidoc but I'm still determined to build my own ssg) It's not fantasizing about the perfect tool, as much as developing a setup where you're comfortable and happy. Especially in the case of SSG, where you're more exposed to the internals and by extension any errors/problems. |