Kismesis - A Static Site Generator

[opaque summit]

I'm making a site generator with a custom markup language to take a stab at solving the problem that HTML is too tedious.

The Engine: https://github.com/lilith-in-starlight/kismesis
The Program: https://github.com/lilith-in-starlight/kismesis-ssg

[faint geyser]

Today I realized there's a major issue with the syntax: it's possible to accidentally typo const and mut and the compiler has no way to detect these errors.

So that's a problem

I made this thread to hopefully not have to spam the rest of the server

[formal inlet]

I've been wondering what kismesis was this entire time lmfao

this is quite interesting

if I ever get back to developing my website i might try this

[faint geyser]

👁️

[faint geyser]

I'm currently using kismesis to make kismesis documentation

it's a good way to debug

[formal inlet]

lmao that's great

[faint geyser]

ignore the <pre> tags, i'm already looking into making a plugin that makes more semantic codeblocks

these two were a pain in the ass to make

because i needed them to generate html in the same way as the rest of the generator

that was a really gradual rewrite

[mighty meadow]

html {
    lang: "us",
    head: head {
        title: "bananas",
        styles: [
            "./my.css",
        ],
        ..head::default(),
    }
}``` hmmmmmm mmmmmm. m m m m mm m

[faint geyser]

this was one of the syntaxes i'd considered in the early stages!

except for ..head::default()

i could have made a rust library instead, but i didn't want to lock semantic accessible websites behind the gate that is learning rust

kismesis is mostly aimed at the indie web!

however at least one person has already showed interest in using it for their company??

you cannot imagine how wild it is to me that this is not even some bs i dreamed up

[mighty meadow]

lmao

[faint geyser]

error prevention!

[faint geyser]

am i about to add "commission artist to draw anime girl for kismesis" to my kismesis checklist

maybe.

i might have to get a job soon, so, that might actually become a worldly possibility

[formal inlet]

LOLLLL

amazing

kismesis-chan

[high ermine]

what have I done

[mighty meadow]

kismesis-chan when

[faint geyser]

see i'd draw a sketch but idk how to draw anime-like

the closest i did was like, one drawing of one of the stranger eons characters

and i had to look up "mordetwi airplanes animation" on youtube to get a reference

writing a short story in kismesis, and hopefully also moving all my other short stories to it

so i can more easily put them in a blog-like format

Also! I'm considering changing the syntax of if to allow for an else if and an else tag

but currently, if is a tag

<if title:
    <title | Ampersandia - @title>
>
<if not title:
    <title | Ampersandia>
>

i suppose i could do this:

<if title:
    <title | Ampersandia - @title>
>
<else:
    <title | Ampersandia>
>

but that feels wrong

what do y'all think?

[velvet condor]

having "an else tag can only immediately follow an if tag" seems reasonable enough

[faint geyser]

i guess that's true, and it's not like there aren't semantic enforcements that do that already for base HTML tags

... i need a name for tags that compile to HTML tags

[velvet condor]

element tags?

as in html the tags typically become DOM elements

[faint geyser]

oh yeah

that works

i probably shouldn't be focusing on choosing names that most accurately describe the things

i should settle for good enough, or 1.0.0 will be stopped entirely because i cannot decide on a name

[faint geyser]

i kinda love how these two look like different languages

[faint geyser]

We're back baby

First semi-stable release soon

All I'm missing are plugins which don't really need to be part of the initial release

For plugins I'm thinking about Steel