When comparing hyde vs JBake, the Slant community recommends JBake for most people. In the question“What are the best static site generators?” JBake is ranked 26th while hyde is ranked 27th. The most important reason people chose JBake is:
Localhost server is included and can be used to preview content during editing process.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Good documentation
Not like Jekyll's, but enough for going from zero to deploying in little time.
Pro Written in Python
Very large community of Python coders. Easy to debug.
Pro Server included
Localhost server is included and can be used to preview content during editing process.
Pro Blog Aware
RSS feed, archive and tag support. Posts/Topics are a first-class citizen in jbake.
Pro Runs on / Control from the JVM
The site generator is just a specific usage of the JBake Java API. As such, jbake is easily integrated into other JVM software.
Pro Typical inputs
Markdown, asciidoc, plain HTML is supported
Pro Open Source (MIT License)
boosts permissive MIT License.
Cons
Con Runs on the JVM
JVM is a double-edged sword (startup time, memory usage, CPU overhead, ...) which might be considered overkill for a static site generator.