A web developer shares their experience adopting Astro as a static site generator for a new company website. After a rocky start with LSP issues in Zed editor and some quirks around whitespace handling, they found Astro's documentation solid and got the job done. The overall verdict is lukewarm — Astro works, but enthusiasm for the JavaScript tooling ecosystem is low, and Cloudflare's acquisition of Astro raises some concerns.
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