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Hugo flexibly works with many formats and is ideal for blogs, docs, portfolios and much more. Hugo’s speed fosters creativity and makes building a website fun again
SpecsUpdate
LanguageGo
Template EngineGo html/template
Markup LanguagesHTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, Org-Mode
PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD
Pros
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Cons
Con Behavior changes with version, and requires you to rewrite the whole thing
They claim they have 300+ themes, of which 3 or 4 will work with the version you download. They claim it's easy, and it was, but today you need to spend a lot of time fighting with HTML, CSS, javascript, in order to get it running. OK, then you fix everything and it works. Surprise... next release again blank website. Why? Because they changed it, they didn't document, and perhaps you need to scream in their forum to know what to do. And after you fix the themes, don't worry: next subrelease, you go with the same issue again!
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Hugo
5 years ago
Initially it was working good. Then it bloated. Today, if you follow the instructions on their website it shows a blank website. Seems the "magic" generator of websites is not magic enough even to keep the structure of creator's blog.
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Behavior changes with version, and requires you to rewrite the whole thingHugo
Recommended 4 years ago
Very easy to get up and going, and extremely fast.
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Fast compile htmlPro
Simple architecturePro
Includes a server option for easy developmentPro
No dependenciesPro
Good documentationPro
Open-source and freePro
Very active communityPro
Clean workflowPro
Single binary - cross platformPro
FastPro
Many themes availablePro
Draft modePro
Easy to add new content types, data files, and taxonomies