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> I marveled at Hugo’s speed, loved the fact that it supports theming (although it’s not as simple as it sounds) and that it has a lot of useful stuff built-in
by Gys 3y ago
> I marveled at Hugo’s speed, loved the fact that it supports theming (although it’s not as simple as it sounds) and that it has a lot of useful stuff built-in like syntax highlighting, image processing, RSS generator etc. But it took me sooo long to understand its structure.
Exactly my feeling.
- Groxx 3y agoI came to say the same thing :| It doesn't help that Hugo really does not help you figure out that e.g. your var is slightly misspelled and is going unused. Or much of anything that could go wrong (and frequently does). There's quite a bit to like at a glance, but I noped out pretty hard after actually trying to use it.
- stavros 3y agoThat's not the complexity of SSGs, that's the complexity of Hugo. It's just not well designed, and is too complex for what it does. I think that people eventually get the Stockholm syndrome of "I understand how it works after N hours, so it must be ok", but the problem is that N is larger than with other SSGs. Either way, it's nothing wrong with it, and it's a good SSG if you know how to use it, it just takes longer to learn compared to eg Zola (which still is a bit underdocumented, but much easier to grasp).