[victorbjorklund]

Because then you have 200 blog posts and suddenly you realize "oh I wanna add an author section to all my blog posts". That is 200 files to edit. Could you write a script to do the edit? Sure, but then you pretty much build a static site generator.

[Lammy]

`sed -i` is one command: https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html#index-_002d...

[jerf]

And you built a static site generator.

Or at least, you will have as you realize things like you only wanted to do that on certain categories or whathaveyou.

You can in principle just write HTML with no script support, but it itself becomes an exercise in conspicuous asceticism. It is not unreasonable to want things like "the last 5 posts" on every page on a blog, or an RSS feed, or any number of other very basic, simple things that are impractical with an editor and raw HTML.

[Lammy]

I use Jekyll actually. That's totally not the point I'm trying to argue :p