Top Open-Source Static Site Generators
If anyone is considering using Hugo, please account the tens of hours you will spend debugging its weirdness and magic. Yes, it's fast but it seems that ease-of-use was its lowest of the low priority. How variables work is impossible to understand. So is creating new layouts. Every change, however minor, involves fighting hard until I give up and settle for a hack.<p>The speed of generation doesn't seem much of an added advantage since you're gonna do it only once anyway. It's hard to know why would anyone make such weird design choices to solve a problem that has an easy, known solution. Am I trivializing? Maybe, but I know how much time I spend on rendering when I am working with Flask + Jinja and how it's 10x worse with Hugo.<p>Sadly, moving my blog way from Hugo would be too much work and I have to bear with it.