Writing · 2026 · 2 min
Rewrote blog in Rust, and now everything will be
A lot has changed in the software development world this past year. One thing I didn’t see coming was Rust being my new language, for Wenmar Pro and now even for this blog.
Jekyll can be rewritten by AI
AI has gotten good enough to completely write websites, including blogs, in just a few minutes. Jekyll is a static site generator, and I’ve been using it for many years. It worked well because I wrote in Markdown and it published to a cdn. It took away all the annoying parts of building a website and I could just focus on writing.
But now AI can not only take away the annoying parts but it can be used to generate entirely new websites based on your direction in plain English. So taking this, it made me think, what is stopping be from moving off of Jekyll? The answer is, not much. Jekyll was a great tool for the time, but it’s too inflexible for the ai coding era.
old post.md ->[ jekyll ]-> _site/ ->[deploy]->[cdn]-> reader new post.md ---------------[ rust ]-----------------> readerold post.md ->[ jekyll ]-> _site/ ->[deploy]->[cdn]-> reader new post.md ---------------[ rust ]-----------------> reader old post.md ->[ jekyll ]-> _site/ ->[deploy]->[cdn]-> reader new post.md ---------------[ rust ]-----------------> reader old post.md ->[ jekyll ]-> _site/ ->[deploy]->[cdn]-> reader new post.md ---------------[ rust ]-----------------> reader old post.md ->[ jekyll ]-> _site/ ->[deploy]->[cdn]-> reader new post.md ---------------[ rust ]-----------------> reader old post.md ->[ jekyll ]-> _site/ ->[deploy]->[cdn]-> reader new post.md ---------------[ rust ]-----------------> reader
Old Jekyll process
Generate a site in Rust and host it on a low end server
I generated this new site in less than an hour, all from my plain English commands. Things, like color, style, etc. I even gave it example sites I enjoyed. I used these as an inspiration:
Generating a new site from nothing is easy now. Especially if you have the original source code or references, then ai is even better at creating your vision. I fine AI always performs better with examples.
No longer need a cdn
No need to explain how performant Rust is. Low cpu usage, low ram usage. Last week as I was thinking about redoing this website, I took a look at my other Rust apps and saw just low little ram was needed. So from here, why not try hosting this blog in Rust? It takes so little resources and a web server gives the added benefit of dynamic content. This blog is hosted with a 0.5 cpu and 256mb of ram. That costs almost nothing!
Dynamic content added
A big benefit of using Rust for this blog is the ability to add dynamic thinkings, like comments or likes. This is what I disliked about static sites the most. The internet is supposed to feel alive and connect you with people. A static site feels so dead. The homepage contains the latest comments, mastodon posts etc. I’m even considering adding a guestbook.
On this blog I will try to keep this site as alive as possible.
Try Rust for your sites
A personal blog represents yourself and having it as a static site is too limiting. So rewriting it in Rust on a low-end server is something worth looking into. Try it out.
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