Hey, I think you're mistaking static site generator === Jekyll. My favorite is Hugo[1]. Just grab the binary and it can run everywhere. I mean everywhere. No need to setup the build tools, environment

[1]: https://gohugo.io/

I switched to Hugo too. I haven't really dug deeply enough into it, though.

If it's working for you, no need to dig it. That's my principle.

This seems like an opinion that was formed based on bad experiences with some SSG that have particularly poor management processes. And that could be wildly popular SSG with the tech crowd, but popular is not the same as good.

Obviously, bad SSG are bad, but not all of them are: any SSG worth recommending to the general public in exchange for money (i.e. recommending to your customers) is one that doesn't rely on the user first making sure their "tech stack" is set up properly: it just comes with a normal installer (even if that "installer" takes advantage of the OS it's running on to grab all the dependencies it needs for itself and uses a preinstalled scripting language to run the system under the hood).

And of course typically these still have a "this project is open source, click here for our git repo!" link that normal users will NEVER use, but power users are drawn to like moths to a flame. Their experience, however, is not what you're going to sell your customers =)

This comment is a huge exaggeration of the effort it takes. You don't even really need full xcode to run terminal on mac.

There's options like Netlify to use as CMS: https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms

Hugo will run anywhere.

In Linux you don't need to install the distro's packaged version; source is where you should go.

There is an added difficulty, but it's not as painful as you make it seem.

And this is why I love arch linux and even use it on all my servers. These days I rarely run into a package that doesn't work or is severely outdated.