Poll: What's your favorite static site generator?

I like wok. It appears to be missing :)

no hyde?

I like Pelican (for blogs). Python, reST + Jinja.

Looks like your list is basically Ruby, Node and PHP, excluding all the Python and other language options.

Seems like Punch supports blog posts now: https://github.com/laktek/punch-blog

nanoc, middleman and nestacms. i really like that you can push static markdown to the server it'll be exported to html automatically with static file caching as an added bonus. More elegant and easier to manage then a CMS or WebApp with Varnish.

just converted my site from wordpress to jekyll, and I'm quite happy... mostly because of the simply syntax highlighting

nanoc [1]. It takes more effort to set up the basic rules for your site, but it's incredibly powerful. For example, my blog [2] can generate archive pages for my articles by year, month, and tag, with the generation handled entirely in "user space," without any undocumented hacks to the system or extenal pre/postprocessing. Another site I created using nanoc has the ability to take recipes that are specified only in the YAML content metadata, and expand them into full-fledged HTML pages - again, entirely in "user space."

In general, I find the ability to use code to control the site's generation very refreshing - the static site generators I had used beforehand (for example, Webgen) rely on configuration files to determine the rendering process, which for sufficiently complicated sites can be hard to trace. By contrast, nanoc's Rules file allows you to see and control exactly how a given file will be processed.

The code is also very well-written (it resists using the hard-to-follow Ruby magic that Rails and company tend to use), although were I Denis Defreyne, I would have written some sort of plugin manager by now.

[1] http://nanoc.stoneship.org/

[2] https://bitbucket.org/leafstorm/leafstorm.us/src

bash and wget.

Simple example:

    for f in `ls *.php`; do  wget http://myexample.com/$f -O $f.html; done;
    rename 's/\.php\.html/.html/' *
    sed -i 's/\.php/.html/g' *.html

I'm using octopress at the moment but it's terribly slow for anything over the trival level. Just a few hundred pages and it's minutes between generations.

I like ikiwiki a lot because it plays nicely with git and there are many useful plugins: http://ikiwiki.info/

Coleslaw, ye olde Common Lisp static site generator (with optional dynamic backends, if that's how you roll)

http://www.cliki.net/coleslaw

You spelled Stasis wrong :)

http://stasis.me

Movable Type.

Jekyll all the way. I even presented about it in my local meetup group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV6n9LU2B2w

Where is Movable Type?

Nikola is missing from the list :) http://nikola.ralsina.com.ar/

Years ago we want to do this and I didn't know any tool for it. I develop the application internally and we used wget mirroring to statically deploy it.

Initially I thought it would suck but turns out wget is way better than I thought. With the combination of ssh etc. We build a simple script that deploys takes mirror of the website and deploys it.

After about 5-6 years, it's still in production with no issues. Internally it's a wiki style, simple database model home grown ASP.NET application.

Hyde: http://ringce.com/hyde

+1 for pelican https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/

I tried jekyll, octopress and toto. ended up with toto and a hosted my blog on a free instance on heroku.

Hakyll, since it has Haskell type safety goodness and is very customizable (it's basically a Haskell EDSL for static site generation):

http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/

The other nice thing about Hakyll is that it uses Pandoc, so it supports different input and output formats (such as HTML slide generation from Markdown).

  > I'm short, Hakyll is awesome.

cached XSLT output :)

Hastie - https://github.com/mkaz/hastie

A static site generator in Golang. My favorite because I wrote it :-) but it is also super fast, however low on features.

I use nanoc rather than jekyll for my blog for reasons I give here: http://theatticlight.net/posts/nanoc3/

rst2html and Makefiles. Sometimes Sphinx.