Creating Static Sites in Rust with Vincent Prouillet

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