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Pencil

Static site generator library built in Haskell

Blogging Platforms ★ 6 stars Hard setup BSD-3-Clause

Pencil is a static site generator library and tool written in Haskell that compiles Markdown and templates into a static website. It gives developers a programmatic way to define site structure and content transformations.

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Key features

  • Haskell library API
  • Markdown rendering
  • Template inheritance
  • Static output

Strengths

  • Released under the BSD-3-Clause license
  • Written in Haskell
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM

Is Pencil secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Pencil's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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