The latest articles on DEV Community by agnogad (@agnogad). https://dev.to/agnogad https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4203530%2F7df8b23d-806c-4b1c-a5b2-ce6c9dd4a054.jpg https://dev.to/agnogad en agnogad Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:28:41 +0000 https://dev.to/agnogad/i-built-a-static-site-generator-in-rust-because-astro-felt-slow-3fbf https://dev.to/agnogad/i-built-a-static-site-generator-in-rust-because-astro-felt-slow-3fbf <p>Most frameworks feel slow to me. I was using Astro for my blog, and even Astro, which is supposed to be fast, felt slow. Then one day it hit me: why not write a really fast static site generator in Rust, the language that makes everything fast?</p> <p>That's how agno started. It's a single 4.2 MB binary with no Node.js and no bundler.</p> <p>Performance blew past my expectations. On the same corpus, cold builds are 3.9-12.8x faster than Hugo and 16.7-185x faster than Astro. I tested it with up to 10,000 posts, and the speed never let me down, it kept surprising me. The full methodology and caveats are in the README.</p> <p>It has everything I personally need, but that is not the finish line for me, and I'm still working on it.</p> <p>You can try it with <code>cargo install agno</code>.</p> <p>Repo: <a href="https://github.com/agnogad/agno" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/agnogad/agno</a></p> rust webdev opensource showdev