We shouldn't have to rewrite our blogs every time a new cool programing language comes around!
I write my blog posts in Org mode. So I wrote this package ox-hugo that exports that to Markdown + the front-matter required by Hugo, in the folder structure for Hugo.
Now I just write in normal Org, and don't worry about manually setting up the post front-matter -- https://ox-hugo.scripter.co
(That site is generated by ox-hugo + Hugo btw :))
I've been trying to pick a "meta language", eventually given up but I cannot remember why, I need to pick it up again.
https://shopify.github.io/liquid/
The problem is that it's written in Ruby and therefore most implementations of it require you to have the whole Ruby dependency chain. That really increases its footprint on a cheap webhost, if you want the SSG to happen server-side (e.g. triggered by a Git hook).