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Speaking as a newbie (python and R mostly) who just wants the blogging software to blog, I use Jekyll because it’s the default choice. Yes there are python options but I don’t want to program the software - my programming energy is already spoken for.

I don’t care about the speed differential.

However if Hugo is actually easier somehow, well that would be tempting.

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It is significantly easier to setup because (in typical Go style) only requires you to download and install a single fat binary. You do not need to do what you're otherwise doing with the likes of Jekyll which involve a significant Ruby environment alongside to function.

I've been using it for over two years, and this is the thing I like most about it.

In addition:

* Yes, it's super fast.

* It allows for clean layout of code with different layouts for different sections: e.g. https://github.com/hnarayanan/harishnarayanan.org

* It's got a really friendly community for support.

as someone with relatively rudimentary skills who tried and failed two or three times to get jekyll working on a throwaway vps, hugo is indeed very, very easy.

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