SuCoS Turns 1
2024-04-01Past
Hold onto your hats, folks! It's time to celebrate a major milestone - our very own Static Site Generator (SSG) built with C# has officially turned one! As we blow out the candles and sing "Happy Birthday," let's take a moment to reflect on the wild ride that our SSG has been on since its inception on April 1st, 2023.
Our SSG was born out of a desire to test and improve my C# skills, as well as a growing frustration with the template system used by Hugo, a popular SSG built with Golang. I wanted to create a solution that addressed a problem that I was personally facing. And so, the idea of our SSG was conceived!
Present
When it came to choosing a template system for our SSG, I opted for Liquid templates. Their popularity and user-friendly nature made them an ideal choice for our SSG. They provided the flexibility and ease of use that I was looking for, making it a perfect fit for our SSG.
As for performance, DotNet (6, 7, and now, 8) has been instrumental in making our SSG the powerhouse that it is today. The C# team's continued efforts to enhance the performance of DotNet have made it a viable option for performance-critical programs. This has significantly improved the speed and efficiency of our SSG, making it a reliable choice for developers.
As mostly a one-man project, the use of AI was a very important motivator for diving into unknown territory. ChatGPT, Copilot, Bard, Gemini, and Mistral were mainly used to generate test suites, analyze and suggest optimizations in the code, and suggest libraries that might help.
Future
While our SSG has come a long way in its first year, there's still work to be done. In the coming months, I plan to implement key features such as pagination, multi-language, and image manipulation and conversion. My "ultimate" goal is to port my personal blog to our SSG, and I'm confident that these improvements will make that possible.
My wife thought it was an April Fool's joke when I started our SSG. But here we are, a year later, celebrating the first birthday of a project that has grown beyond my wildest dreams. It's been a year of learning, growth, and innovation, and I can't wait to see what the future holds for our SSG.