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Writing raw html and wiring it yourself is a hassle, how is not upgrading node a bigger one? Besides there are SSGs that are a single binary


I faintly remember when the kernel config asked you if you wanted both `a.out` and `ELF` support.

No one says that single binaries compiled in the last 10 years might be usable without a VM in another 10 or 20 years.

And no, 20 years for the same blog to exist isn't even so rare.


If you make such risks up, then no one says that html will be readable in the same way in 20 years (which is already kind of true as you have a lot of old blogs with awful layout on mobile)

But there is an even easier one - nothing will happen to your html built files of 20 years, they'll remain... static.

The worst is you'll go to updating your lovely html by hand, but you would've saved yourself wasting 20 years doing that instead of using a better system.


I promise you, HTML is not a hassle... It's markup. You describe the page, and then... you're done. And if you don't use weird, niche tags, it'll work basically forever.


This is a patently false promise. Yes, it's markup, but a bad one un-ergonomic-suitable for direct human consumption. Even the author of the blog understands it and uses alternatives

> with md-block for markdown

> You describe the page, and then... you're done

Unless you want to re-describe something, of course. Maybe sort a column in a table...




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