I use Hugo for several websites and I enjoy it a lot. One favorite part is the ability to create content of different types.
This statement caught my attention in the article: > It is optimized for speed (Hugo sites can be built in milliseconds) Is that true, or does it just happen to be fast? It seems to me that the performance of a static site generation is irrelevant, and thus time spent on this is really wasted effort. I don't care if it takes several minutes to build.. it'll happen on the CI server in the background, and so long as th…
It's also amazing to just have a single binary (or go get -u command) to get going unlike jekyll or the gems to run github's jekyll environment locally. I can't tell you how many times I'd just not blog in a while and need to setup this whole crazy setup for local jekyll and I'd just never write the post because of it. Hugo makes things simple, fast, and extensible.
edit: also I usually do the build locally and commit that to a specific repo which has the final rendered version for easy deployment to github and other places. I've made a `Makefile` just to do this easily as `make publish` to get any changes I have build, commited to the rendered repo, and commited to the source repo.