IMHO, writing themes for WordPress seems very convoluted. I much prefer how themes are handled in Hugo, which IIRC is based on Go’s standard templating engine.

IMHO, writing themes for WordPress seems very convoluted. I much prefer how themes are handled in Hugo, which IIRC is based on Go’s standard templating engine. I’ve tried reading up on how to make WordPress themes, but instead of actually writing a theme I ran in the other direction and went with Hugo instead. To me, this feels like an anti-feature of WordPress. In a sane CMS, getting a basic theme up and running – from scratch – should be easy.