The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website
Eventually, the era of PHP websites passed and static site generators became the new fad. Everything old is new again! First you had people who made static websites discovering dynamic websites, and then you had people who made dynamic websites discovering static websites. If you have a static website and you want to make it dynamic and you don’t use PHP, pretty much all options available to you imply a massive increase in complexity that must be paid up front before you can do anything at all. The CGI/PHP deployment and execution model clearly excites people as demonstrated by the popularity of AWS Lambda, yet we still see relatively little new development in this space; the ability to dip in and out of code in web pages to offer mildly dynamic functionality on the server side without frameworks is empowering yet is largely offered by PHP alone.