I didn't realize this was so common. In my crazy days I wrote a SSG using only XSLT, so you wrote a big xml with the content and it would output a full site ready to upload.

It needed a specific XSLT processor as most couldn't generate individual files, but it was nice that it worked with off the shelf software, so technically I didn't write a single line of code.

(XSLT is madness, don't attempt)