I am currently trying out various Static Site Generators (SSGs) and assessing thewm against my personal requirements around perhaps trying to publish content again. This post will be about my initial impressions of Quarto Blog.
Quarto is an R package for publishing content, and it looks extremely impressive. It is of course a part of the wider R publishing ecosystem, taking advantage of a full stack of tooling, including LaTeX, knitr, RMarkdown, and Quarto even introduces its own Quarto Markdown (qmd).
It seems like quite a significant toolchain, and probably is more complex than my requirements demand. It might be complex to port the system to another machine and redeploy; there might be some dependencies I forget about, bringing the entire site intom disrepair.
Also, while I am following along with a tutorial, I am finding it a little beyond my knowledge, that is, under the hood I don’t have a lot of confidence that I know what’s happening during deployment.
But it has definite advantages; access to a wide array of extensions from Quarto and themes from Bootswatch, a visually beautiful interface (though this is not a major requirement) and the capacity to build other kinds of static content, such as my CV.
All told, I think this solution could be very impressive, but the considerable dependencies might make this less sustainable.
-Hoss