A blog engine in one 1,200-line bash script, and the thread can't agree if that's craft or madness (github.com)
Bashblog generates a full static blog, RSS, tags and backups from one ~1,200-line Bash script that leans only on standard Unix tools. No runtime to install, no database. It has 1.9k GitHub stars.
The objection was blunt: one engineer said there's zero advantage to bash past a few lines, with editor syntax highlighting breaking across the file. The counter came from someone who runs web servers in 128MB of RAM, where pulling in Python or Node is exactly the cost you're trying to avoid.
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