>To be honest, the hard part of static site generation is parsing the Markdown, since Markdown is a complex language. Everything around it is simple scripting, which we can easily do ourselves.

I would think 95%+ of the work would be in pandoc if everything was from scratch. And they would have used Zine if it had supported the feature they want.

For larger project, mostly DB selection I completely agree with what you said. But for SSR, especially when there are other similar OSS like Zine available, I think they are fine.

Although I do wish if Zine had all the improvement Tigerbeetle wanted so at least the Zig community could all use one rather than roll their own.