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Pelican is more popular than Nikola, judging from their Github repos. As for Jekyll and Hugo, I'd surmise that Python is too mainstream for the hip crowd. Plus,

by m000 6y ago

Pelican is more popular than Nikola, judging from their Github repos. As for Jekyll and Hugo, I'd surmise that Python is too mainstream for the hip crowd. Plus, Jekyll is the "default" generator for Github pages.

076ae80a-3c97-4 6y ago
Jekyll is written in Ruby, but you're right that being used for Github pages makes it popular.
- athriren 6y ago
  m000 is saying that the usage of Jekyll (Ruby) and Hugo (Go) are driven in part by hip trend-following programmers not wanting to use Python, not that Jekyll and Hugo are written in Python.
  - jdminhbg 6y ago
    Right, I think the counter here is that Ruby isn’t trendier than Python is.
    - sebmellen 6y ago
      Not anymore, but it sure used to be, around the time Jekyll came into the mainstream.
ASalazarMX 6y ago
Hugo is written in Go, hippy enough for me. It was my first experience with static websites, and I was surprised how smooth it is: easy installation, easy testing, easy deployment.
- mathnmusic 6y ago
  I was disappointed how Gitbook, after going the SaaS way with v3, has broken compatibility with their own v2 cli. If you export markdown files from gitbook.io, gitbook-cli v2 is unable to import them and turn into static HTML files because Gitbook now uses custom liquid tags which are not open-source.
  - type0 6y ago
    There's a fork of gitbook v2 https://github.com/honkit/honkit https://github.com/honkit/honkit not sure how well maintained it is though MdBook is another good one, as hip as it goes, written in Rust nonetheless :-)