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+title: "About site generators."
+slug: "site-generators"
+created: 2025-06-24
+description: "Explaining why I prefer to write my own site generator instead of using frameworks like Hugo."
+tags: [Technology]
+draft: false
+---
+
+Hugo is a static website generator. If you were to look at the source code of this very website,
+you would see that its layout is also very similar to Hugo, yet it doesn't use it.
+
+Hugo (and probably other site generators as well) is a little too complex for simple site generation.
+You see, site generators like Hugo are designed to work on different websites, use complex directory layouts,
+and are bundled with all these fancy features that you probably don't even need.
+Of course, That's not a big problem, but I personally find it a little overkill, not elegant, and even ugly.
+
+Not using Hugo means you would have to write your own site generator from scratch,
+because writing plain HTML isn't really an option. Doing that isn't hard, and it has the added benefit of
+being built into the repository itself along with all the content, making it way more flexible than Hugo,
+and also dependent on less external software.
+
+Using Hugo is fine, but I would rather use simple shell or Python scripts with
+a basic Markdown compiler like [smu](https://github.com/Gottox/smu).