Creating Static Sites in Rust with Vincent Prouillet

Rustacean Station

Dec 19, 2019•54 min

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Episode description

Vincent Prouillet talks about his experience building the Zola static site generator (formerly known as Gutenberg) and reflects on five years of working with Rust.

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Timestamps

[@00:59] - What’s a static site generator?
[@03:52] - How easy is it to build and edit a site?
[@07:58] - Why create a new static site generator?
[@12:35] - The Tera template engine and Vincent’s experience building it
[@17:53] - Creating filters and tests to use with Tera
[@24:29] - What’s a taxonomy?
[@25:48] - Mapping content to URLs
[@30:53] - The experience of being an open source maintainer
[@33:57] - Rust crates and features used by Zola
[@36:57] - How the Rust ecosystem ensured fast performance
[@40:35] - Is Rust ready for web applications?
[@43:25] - What applications are best suited to Rust now?
[@46:50] - Issues or things you wish existed in Rust?
[@51:08] - Helping out with Zola

References and Resources Vincent Prouillet

Zola

Tools/Crates used by Zola

pulldown-cmark (Markdown)
syntec (Syntax highlighting using Sublime Text definitions)
rayon (Parallel computation)
heaptrack (Memory Profiler)

Static Site Hosts

Crates for Web Applications

Compiled Template Engines

Runtime Template Engines

Tera (Jinja2-like HTML template engine)
ramhorns
rust-mustache

Static Site Generators