Hi!

Both Perl and PHP are dying languages. Python is nice, but Ruby on Rails is
way nicer. That's just my opinion though, and I build tons of super cool
web and mobile apps.

Ruby on Rails vs PHP - Commercial #3 of 9:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5EIrSM8dCA etc.

--Murk

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Kamil Cholewiński <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, [email protected] wrote:
> > Reality check, structured text presentation beats any sort of generator:
> >
> > [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language]
>
> I agree with using an LML, but that's just one piece of the puzzle.
> There are numerous converters available:
>
> - http://pandoc.org/
> - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Markdown
> - etc
>
> Where's the line between a fully-fledged generator and a simple
> converter?
>
> Eg. pandoc is quite versatile, but you need a little glue and a template
> before you could call it a blog. Going with a simpler converter, and you
> soon end up with enough glue to call it a framework. (Greenspun's tenth
> law?)
>
> >> Try one of these: https://www.staticgen.com/
> >
> > Good luck finding one that will not shoot you in the foot in the long
> > run if you are not trained to handle it inside out from the internals.
>
> Agree! 100% agree! I did look at a whole bunch before deciding it's not
> worth it, and stitched something together using pandoc, make, and some
> Python to generate indexes. That's for v2, v1 didn't even use pandoc.
>
> However same argument as with anything custom vs stock.
>
> > And prepare some cost and a person to dedicate to handling the comments.
> > AI is pretty stagnant plus the personal e-assistants still don't get it.
>
> If you want comments on your website, you need this person either way.
>
> Disqus has an advantage, that you don't have to run a database and
> handle user input on your backend. Of course if you're fine with Disqus,
> you can probably also just go to Blogspot...
>
> Personally, if I cared about comments, I'd insert a mailto: link in the
> footer.
>
> > The less the better, so edit where you like, copy to web server, done.
>
> Depends! It may be OK if you're exactly one person with exactly one
> website, but this won't scale well, esp. when there's any sort of build
> process involved. Storing artifacts in VC sucks horribly, even for a
> small thing. Build servers are overkill for a blog.
>
> K.

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