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		dualogy on Jan 2, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite... Heh. I think static-site-gens are the new "PHP/ASP CMS": as in, every small-time coder writes their own from scratch now ;D v0 "works" already, it's just stupidly inefficient and too messy code to properly refactor (vs rewrite from scratch)..

erikb on Jan 3, 2017 [–]

Trust me when I tell you that refactoring is nearly always the better solution. Consider that rewriting from scratch doesn't necessarily yield a better result than what you have already.

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