Eleventy High Performance Blog made it into my feed today. I hadn’t even heard of Eleventy (11ty) before today so I thought I’d check it out.
What piqued my interest about Eleventy was this:
A simpler static site generator. An alternative to Jekyll. Written in JavaScript. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
Emphasis mine.
It’s actually more like:
I’m much more familiar with JavaScript than I am with Ruby (Jekyll is built with Ruby). While the idea of being able easily make changes to the static site generator sounds compelling, the truth is that I just don’t have the time. Had I known about Eleventy when I started blogging (or done some more up front analysis), I may have chosen it as my blogging platform.
As a software engineer, I feel like I am constantly being tempted by the next new thing whether it’s a new platform, language, or framework. I think it’s important to be aware of what is happening around you, but to also think objectively about the benefits. In this case, it would be a new capability that I have no plans to use. As such, I’ve got no plans to switch.