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Hakyll is fantastic -- works great as a blog, but is also very extensible. I used Nanoc before that and it was also excellent.

I don't think you want Pelican or Jekyll in this case. Their emphasis is definitely on blogging and you'll have to fight them some if you move away from that niche.

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Are there any examples of a non-blog use case with Hakyll e.g. a partly static, partly generated website?

How does Hugo compare to Hakyll?

I haven't used Hugo but my entire site is generated with Hakyll: http://mark.reid.name/ . I've found it works well for a mixture of blogging and more static content.

Thanks for the example. Can you compare Hakyll to other static site generators?

Hakyll will be very similar to something like Nanoc. The difference will be mainly in the language and ecosystem -- compared to normal languages Haskell is pretty weird.

That said, Haskell is also _incredibly awesome_ and especially well suited to static site generation. Plus Pandoc is possibly the best format conversion tool out there. But I would only use if if you either already know Haskell or are curious and will enjoy playing around and learning new things.

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