> main takeaway I got from that experience is that both of these "simple" static site generators are ridiculously over-engineered. Amen - Hugo is a total pain

> main takeaway I got from that experience is that both of these "simple" static site generators are ridiculously over-engineered. Amen - Hugo is a total pain to work with in my experience. Many hours pulling hair out trying to do very simple things (like a page that appears if the user just enters a directory (e.g. "mysite.com/stuff/" and not "mysite.com/stuff/page")) I found Jekyll to be much, much, much, much easier to work with than Hugo - I ported a site from dokuwiki and with Jekyll I was done within a day (complete with writing a custom theme), but with Hugo I spent days and days just wrestling trying to get basic things to work before I had even started theming before giving up and just using Jekyll. I am sure there are people who need compilation in 20ms vs 1000ms, but I can wait a couple of seconds if it means I don't have to spend days messing with Hugo just to get it to do basic things.