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A developer shares their experience building a custom static site generator in C#/.NET after 13 years of using Nikola (Python). The post explores motivations for switching away from Python, evaluates C#/.NET's ecosystem for SSG development (libraries for Markdown, templating, image processing), and presents performance benchmarks showing 3-7x faster build times compared to Nikola. Key architectural decisions include treating all content as unified Item objects, using dependency injection throughout, maintaining immutable data structures, and developing Windows-first for cross-platform compatibility. The project is open source but designed specifically for the author's blog.

I Wrote YetAnotherBlogGenerator

Is C#/.NET a viable technology stack for a static site generator?