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 CholewiÅski <[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.

