Never tried hugo, but it surely must be cleaner than jekyll. As a matter of policy I prefer to install tools packaged by my distribution. For debian, the jekyll package went through several "engines" and whatnot along the years, and each change broke the build. For some reason it even needed particular python versions, even if it is written in ruby. A complete nightmare. I honestly lost faith in static site generators after the experience with jekyll. Even if hugo is saner, it is still amenable to breaking as its debian package evolves, and I don't want to deal with that.