I Built My Own Org-Mode Static Site Generator

1. Introducing: Orgo For a long time, I've been using weblorg, a static site generator (SSG) for org-mode. It uses Emacs Lisp, which pairs well with Emacs. However, it has a few downsides: since it requires Emacs, the set-up and maintenance is heavy it has upstream dependencies that must also be installed and loaded into Emacs it re-runs the full process every time you need to regenerate the site, even if you only change a single character in one file since it runs through Emacs in the background, it takes quite a while to build my site (~180 pages) So, I decided to spin up my own org-mode-based SSG: orgo. This SSG uses org-mode (rather than markdown) for its content. Figure 1: The orgo CLI 2. Results Up Front I want to highlight the speed first, before I go into the major differences. As you can see in the table below, orgo is incredibly fast. MethodTimeDiff weblorg (emacs --script publish.el)49.0s weblorg + build.py50.3s orgo, cold build0.22s223× faster orgo, nothing changed since…