I disagree. The great thing about SSGs like Jekyll and Middleman is that they&#x27;re very easy to build plugins for.  Jekyll in particular is easy to learn, and easy to expand.  I honestly can&#x27;t imagine a bona fide programmer having that much difficulty picking up Jekyll.<p>If you <i>did</i> want to build a custom SSG, I think you&#x27;re best bet is starting from Gulp, and building from there.  At least then you can leverage the Gulp ecosystem instead of re-building <i>everything</i> yourself.