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I wanted to migrate away from my Jekyll website but Hugo was a mess back then. Unintuitive, weird syntax, weird logic. This was years ago and my Jekyll blog still runs perfectly. I'm gonna migrate or to Astro sometime as Jekyll is deprecated

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I migrated from Hugo to Astro and by that I mean I had to basically start from scratch. I'm using it but suspect Astro will be the next Hugo in a few years time. It is not overly simple in any way.

Agreed. Astro seems more of the same as Hugo, except JS-based. Note that for its intended audience, this is a feature.

> I'm using it but suspect Astro will be the next Hugo in a few years time. It is not overly simple in any way.

If anyone wants simple, I think Eleventy is the way to go.

I've finally been exploring Astro recently, and apart from Astro-specific features like Content Collections, everything else seems fairly stable, or at least unopinionated the way Hugo is (except Hugo changes their opinion far too much).

Because the language here is unclear, Jekyll is not deprecated. It is still making releases (4.3.4, a few weeks ago)

I guess software is never done, but Jekyll is over 20 years old at this point. That is a long time to still be iterating on a Markdown to HTML converter.

Wait until I break the news about 90% of the tools in the Linux world.

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