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The nice thing about Hugo is that there's no install step. Just download and run with zero dependencies. Plus it's literally 100 times faster than jekyll. Friend of mine with a large blog (1000-ish posts) has to wait over 5 minutes for jekyll to render his whole site. He tried Hugo with the same site: 1 second. This enables live reloading in a local browser whenever you change anything in your site, which is super handy.

My first post about Hugo on my (obviously) Hugo-powered site: https://npf.io/2014/08/hugo-is-awesome/

I'm using Pelican[0], which is written in Python.

0. http://blog.getpelican.com/

And I used Sculpin[0], written in PHP and uses Twig for templating.

[0] https://sculpin.io/

I assume you'd have to host this yourself? One advantage of Jekyll/Pages is that the hosting is free and relatively easy to set up.

edit: disregard me. I was busy being a bad user who doesn't read

Hugo is just like Jekyll. It converts markdown (or other markup) into static HTML.

Ah, I see. I didn't thoroughly read the splash page. Thank you for informing me!

Does it work with GitHub Pages?

Edit http://gohugo.io/tutorials/github-pages-blog/ THERE ARE SO MANY STEPS. I guess I'll eat the build time until it gets to 5 minutes.