bashblog VS bashttpd

bashblog is a single file bash shell script that will do what you want.

Bashblog - a single bash script to generate a static blog site. It’s over 1000 lines of code, but works well and is super easy to tweak/enhance

If you’ve ok with learning Markdown, then probably the most suckless way to build a static website is bashblog It’s one single bash script - that’s it.

Use a note taking app - I like Joplin and bashblog, but whatever works for you. I also have a personal pastebin set up so that I can zap stuff to it, and then look at it later when I have time.

A while ago I did some research and while it's not the only option I was quite taken with bashblog As you can see from the Changelog it's still actively developed and tweaked for some 10 years now.

You can use bashblog, a simple bash script that converts Markdown to HTML.

I've had https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd/blob/master/bashttpd bookmarked for a while... not sure if it address:

In a way I feel that everything is an alternative to everything and at the same time nothing is.

As you said it all depends on the circumstances. But I don't really see Zig competing with Go. They both can do mostly the same things, but they both approach them from quite a different sides.

For example bash is being used in:

- gaming (https://github.com/JosefZIla/bash2048)

- web apps (https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd)

- networking

- CLIs

- distributed systems (https://github.com/frameable/aviary.sh)

- crypto (https://armedia.com/blog/blockchain-program-written-bash/ https://github.com/grondilu/bitcoin-bash-tools)

- systems programming (https://github.com/damphat/kv-bash)

- language tooling

Some of those make more sense than others. However we all talk about a mythical general case. For every language there are niches that are covered by it more significantly. For Go it would probably be web backend. It doesn't mean it is only suited to this one niche, it is used in everything. In general it is used there more. I don't believe that Rust sees the most use in the same niche to the same order that Go sees it.

Is Rust or Zig an alternative to php, awk or Lisp? In practice I don't really think so.

I guess it all depends on one's definition of "alternative". I don't think that a statistical Go programmer would see Zig as a real alternative. Statistical C programmer might see it as a Go alternative, but that probably would not be a question he would ask.

https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd - httpd implementation in bash

Even bash, awk, and sed can do it.