hyperstatic is an extremely simple static html pages generator written in C. It takes inspiration from others static generators such as saait or bashblog.

I wanted both a standard way to build and mantain this personal website while also being able to do it from any computer without installing a bunch of dependencies and having some specific toolchain (I've tried jekyll and hugo but found them slighly too much for my needs).

This project was made to suit my specific needs rather than to be super modular and flexible, so expect a lot of personal choices and a total lack of personalization and options at some parts (I try to keep it somehow adaptable, but keep in mind that there're lots of better choices for that out there).

It has the following:

• Pure HTML, no markdown nor other parsers
• Works with the idea of a single "list of sorted pages" + "individual pages"
• Allows unlisted pages for more single content rather than "blog posts" (like an "About" page)
• Written in C with almost no dependencies (besides libc and a compiler)
• A basic template sytem with

  header

  +

  page / index

  +

  footer

  files to generate both an index with a list of pages and N of those different pages
• A tags system to embed dynamic elements such as the pages list, the site name, links and so on
• Support for a "last updated at..." element on already existing pages

And as a (probably) TODO list:

• RSS file generation
• Friendly tags system (using single chars was easy at first, but probably will change it the same way the page header settings works)
• Global config file with stuff such as site name and other constants (to avoid editing the source code each time)
• Remove previously /output files before each generation

More info, details and source code available on its github page.