You don't. I use Hugo, and haven't touched a line of go code. For me, setting it up, using one of the available templates, with a few tweaks, seemed very easy.

You don't. I use Hugo, and haven't touched a line of go code. For me, setting it up, using one of the available templates, with a few tweaks, seemed very easy. But I haven't used other static generators so I'm not sure how Hugo compares.