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I don't code with it but I use Hugo (a static site generator) that's written in Go because it's ridiculously fast. Ruby and JavaScript static site generators I'

I don't code with it but I use Hugo (a static site generator) that's written in Go because it's ridiculously fast. Ruby and JavaScript static site generators I've tried end up taking several seconds to generate a handful of pages when Hugo spits out hundreds of pages in less than a second. It's pretty crazy how used we are now to slow dynamic languages. I also like how Hugo is available as a single binary file - much simpler compared to the complex build chain of a typical JavaScript app.

spurgu 6y ago
I slapped together a static site generator in (mostly) Bash the other day and it renders all of my 6 shitposts (Node for MD -> HTML conversion) in 2.7 seconds flat and I'm perfectly happy with it. Or I was. Now your post made me want to rewrite it in Go, for science.
- MH15 6y ago
  My Node.js (well, Typescript) static site generator that I wrote for my blog is carefully written to be fast enough for me. I am considering rewriting in Go too, "for science", but I'll probably continue to use the Node.js version if only for the npm packages I use. https://github.com/mh15/neanderthal https://github.com/mh15/neanderthal