feels like there's effectively no middle ground between "handwrite all this shit in html" (my current website) and "fucking wordpress"
like yeah okay if I want to maintain an update-able directory of a few dozen pages I'm absolutely not learning a Blog Engine with its own entire computing paradigm constructed entirely of load-bearing security defects. But everything else is like "learn 40 different JS frameworks that are all designed for hundreds of millions of simultaneous users"
are static site generators still a thing? Brief googling is still finding people using fucking jinja which is some 2007-ass "what if a text file was six terabytes of an esoteric XML dialect that no human can read or write" shit
why did we let web developers
There are some good, modern SSGs out there. I've heard good things about Jekyll and Hugo.
Personally, I use the lightweight and very old HTP because my needs are mostly "edit some HTML on all pages at once" and "template out the HTML blocks for lots of individual images"
https://htp.sourceforge.net/
