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> Use any SSG not written in javascript and you'll be fine.

Commonly stated but not actually true. For example:

https://github.com/getzola/zola/blob/master/Cargo.lock

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo (scroll to the bottom of the README)



You don't need these deps to install it, just to compile it.


Yeah Hugo has the advantage that dep management for Go is 10000x simpler than JS, Ruby, Python, etc., particularly when you are someone who doesn't work in that language regularly.

Plus as sibling comment says you usually don't do anything but install hugo, `hugo [command]`


To be fair in every day use Hugo is a single very portable binary


This. Makes everything so smooth. Serverless cloud providers love it too. (Cloudflare Pages, etc.)


If that scares you, you must be terrified of modern Linux distros.




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