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Rustyll

Static site generator written in Rust that builds Markdown and Liquid sites, with compatibility for Jekyll sites and themes.

Rustyll is a static site generator written in Rust. It builds sites from Markdown and Liquid templates, and it is compatible with Jekyll sites and themes. The installation guide installs it as a Rust crate with Cargo or as a Docker image, and the deployment page describes the generated output as static.

The project publishes migration guides for moving a site from Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Eleventy, Zola, mdBook, GitBook, MkDocs, Pelican, Slate and Bridgetown. It is a Better Web Initiative project.

Worth knowing

The main branch names a version that has no release yet, so the newest installable version may differ from the code on the main branch.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Better Web Initiative4
First release
20258

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Static files, Dev only36
Rendering
Static output3
Install with
cargo install rustyll5

Releases

Current major version
Pre-1.08
Last release
2025-11-219

Adoption

GitHub stars
92
Contributors
110

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-10-23: links
    rustyll.better-web.org/
  2. 2026-10-23: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/betterwebinit/rustyll
  3. 2026-10-23: links, Rendering, Runs as
    rustyll.better-web.org/docs/
  4. 2026-10-23: Maintainer, Categories, Runtime, Templating
    raw.githubusercontent.com/betterwebinit/rustyll/main/README.md
  5. 2026-10-23: Install with
    rustyll.better-web.org/docs/installation/
  6. 2026-10-23: Runs as
    rustyll.better-web.org/docs/deployment/
  7. 2026-10-23: License
    github.com/betterwebinit/rustyll/blob/main/Cargo.toml
  8. 2026-10-23: First release, Current major version
    api.github.com/repos/betterwebinit/rustyll/releases
  9. 2026-10-23: Last release
    api.github.com/repos/betterwebinit/rustyll/releases/latest
  10. 2026-10-23: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/betterwebinit/rustyll/contributors?per_page=1

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