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[=title "About"]
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[=isSimple true]
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[=content-]
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<div class="text">
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Sitix began in Summer '23 when I got fed up with the quirks of Jekyll and decided to build my own templating engine. I put together a schematic not unlike
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modern Sitix and began implementing it in Rust (which I had just learned), but I quickly realized that my pattern was simply not going to work for such a complex
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design, and so after a lot of fruitless debugging and such I eventually stopped developing it. It's probably still up <a href="https://github.com/LinuxRocks2000/sitix">here</a>.<br>
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In November '24 I was working on a client's website and, once again, got fed up with Jekyll. I remembered the Sitix project I'd begun in 2023 and tried to implement it
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- but failed spectacularly. Sitix was a shipwreck. So, through early March, I reimplemented: I moved to C++, a much more familiar language; changed the structure to be
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just quirky enough to satisfy me while still robust and usable, and quickly got Sitix behind several websites.<br><br>
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Sitix is designed to replace everything I like about Jekyll (Liquid. It's just Liquid. I hate literally everything else), while also providing a saner interface,
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and being much easier to compile and install (farewell, Gem Hell). I also incorporated concepts from JavaScript (especially JSON); parts of the object model are
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obviously inspired by JavaScript, and the tree-like structure of a Sitix file is heavily remnant of JSON. I also added a little of my own "charm"; evident
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in the scope system (which is even less sane than JavaScript's) and the not-quite-XML tag structure.<br><br>
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Sitix is a very young project, and I'm still working out the bugs and adding crucial features. The stuff I'm working on is usually going to be near the top of
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<a href="[^baseurl]/pages/todo.html">the TODO list</a>.<br><br>
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Sitix is protected by GNU GPLv3. Please put a little "built with Sitix by Tyler Clarke" with a link to this website somewhere on every Sitix-generated page
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you make (Sitix can make this easy with templates :D), if you choose to use Sitix.
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</div>
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[/]
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[#templates/default.html] |