Motivation

I found myself looking at updating my personal website, as it had become quite outdated. Long ago, I had made a site to learn vue as I was working with full time full stack development at the time. Since I much prefer not to play with Javascript, I had started looking for alternatives.

You can take a look at Jamstack to see the major players in the space. However, Hugo had been the pitch that I needed to give it a try. I had worked with Go at my previous job and had enjoyed it, I knew I wanted to write my content in markdown syntax, as I have done for both my notes and resume.

Why Zola?

I have also been recently bitten by the Rust bug. I have been working my way through zero to production rust and at work we had recently replaced our flake8 linter with Ruff. I was first introduced to Zola through Adam Chalmers Blog. I followed through basic site generation with Hugo and Zola and Zola, both were incredibly pain free.

Being that Zola's templating was styled around Jinja2 (which I was most familiar with) and my current infatuation with rust. I felt there was no reason not send it and see how it performs. Which is great with static site generators, as the markdown content is easily transferable.