Rustacean Station

Creating Static Sites in Rust with Vincent Prouillet

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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
      • Personal Site
      • @20100Prouillet
        • Zola
        • Zola Website
        • Zola Forum
          • Tools/Crates used by Zola
          • pulldown-cmark (Markdown)
          • syntec (Syntax highlighting using Sublime Text definitions)
          • rayon (Parallel computation)
          • heaptrack (Memory Profiler)
            • Static Site Hosts
            • Github Pages
            • Netlify
              • Crates for Web Applications
              • jsonwebtoken
              • Bcrypt
              • Validator
                • Compiled Template Engines
                • askama
                • maud
                • horrowshow
                  • Runtime Template Engines
                  • Tera (Jinja2-like HTML template engine)
                  • ramhorns
                  • rust-mustache
                    • Static Site Generators
                    • Hugo
                    • Jekyll
                    • Pelican
                      • Other links
                      • Forestry (WYSIWYG CMS for Static Sites)
                      • Keyword Arguments RFC
                      • kickstart (Scaffolding tool)
                        • Credits

                        Intro Theme: Aerocity

                        Audio Editing: Jeremy Jung

                        Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

                        Show Notes: Ben Striegel

                        Hosts: Jeremy Jung

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