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We switched the Let's Encrypt website from Jekyll to Hugo. We did it primarily for i18n support (Jekyll does not support translation), but it would have been wo

by jaas 8y ago

We switched the Let's Encrypt website from Jekyll to Hugo. We did it primarily for i18n support (Jekyll does not support translation), but it would have been worth it just to avoid Jekyll's ruby dependency nightmare. Hugo is a single static binary, so simple.

the_mitsuhiko 8y ago
I built the actix.rs website with hugo and while I generally like it it has some bizarre things that make development harder than necessary. Sometimes it randomly refuses to build pages that worked before, until you realize it has something to do with it now picking up other templates. But no error message. And that you can't shell out to helper scripts makes it very restricted in so many aspects. I wanted to extract source examples from other code and preprocess it and the only way I could make it work was some really ugly go template code and that didn't even let me implement everything I want since they are so restrictive :( I really wish one could shell out to an executable to fill the gaps. As an example this is how code snippets are included. Sadly we cannot remove leading spaces on the lines to remove extra indentation, so now the source files look ugly :( https://github.com/actix/actix-website/blob/master/layouts/shortcodes/include-example.html https://github.com/actix/actix-website/blob/master/layouts/s...
andy800 8y ago
Thank you! The LE site is terrific (as is LE itself). Because it is open-source, I essentially cloned it for a professional association. https://casinoanalytics.org https://casinoanalytics.org Credit to LE is on the FAQ page. Thanks again.
edem 8y ago
And it is full of implicit stuff, cryptic templates, and the whole thing is pretty unintuitive. You also cant write plugins for it. Jekyll has i18n support I dont know what you are talking about.

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We switched the Let's Encrypt website from Jekyll to Hugo. We did it primarily for i18n support (Jekyll does not support translation), but it would have been wo

by jaas 8y ago

the_mitsuhiko 8y ago
I built the actix.rs website with hugo and while I generally like it it has some bizarre things that make development harder than necessary. Sometimes it randomly refuses to build pages that worked before, until you realize it has something to do with it now picking up other templates. But no error message. And that you can't shell out to helper scripts makes it very restricted in so many aspects. I wanted to extract source examples from other code and preprocess it and the only way I could make it work was some really ugly go template code and that didn't even let me implement everything I want since they are so restrictive :( I really wish one could shell out to an executable to fill the gaps. As an example this is how code snippets are included. Sadly we cannot remove leading spaces on the lines to remove extra indentation, so now the source files look ugly :( https://github.com/actix/actix-website/blob/master/layouts/shortcodes/include-example.html https://github.com/actix/actix-website/blob/master/layouts/s...
andy800 8y ago
Thank you! The LE site is terrific (as is LE itself). Because it is open-source, I essentially cloned it for a professional association. https://casinoanalytics.org https://casinoanalytics.org Credit to LE is on the FAQ page. Thanks again.
edem 8y ago
And it is full of implicit stuff, cryptic templates, and the whole thing is pretty unintuitive. You also cant write plugins for it. Jekyll has i18n support I dont know what you are talking about.