After roughly five years, I've finally decided to switch my blog over
from Pelican to Eleventy. I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't at
least partially swayed by the fact that all the cool kids seemed to be doing
it but, with that in mind, I do have some (hopefully) legitimate reasons for
making the switch.
Pelican bills itself as a static site generator, and so it is, but one that
focuses more on traditional, single user blogs. Pelican can, of course,
be used as a CMS, and you can certainly use it to create arbitrary,
standalone pages and websites, but the features in support of this usage
seem more bolted on than organic. There are certain assumptions built into
Pelican that stem from its original purpose as a blogging engine that are
occasionally irritating to circumvent.
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