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Considering that a vast majority of people who decide to learn a static site generator never end up really developing their static site much beyond a few articles talking about their static site generation process, I think there is definitely more value in just going all the way and writing your own static site generator from scratch. The code is the true purpose, not the final output. And the thing about a static site generator is, once it works – you’re done. You can put the project away and move on to other common things like building a tile map editor, etc.