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Why Hugo?

October 2nd, 2016

As I've pointed out a few times Hugo powers this site. In this post I'm going to try to point out some pros and cons, so let's get into it.

To paraphrase Douglas Adams:

"The static site generator landscape is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s daunting choosing a web framework, but that’s just peanuts to the static site generator landscape."

Just to give you a taste here's a list I've ~~stolen~~ copied from staticsitegenerators.net:

Name	Github	License	Language	Created	Stars
ABlog	abakan-zz/ablog	other	Python	28-04-2014	121
Ace	botanicus/ace	mit	Ruby	20-10-2010	37
acrylamid	posativ/acrylamid	BSD-2-Clause	Python	27-03-2011	282
AkashaCMS	akashacms/akashacms		JavaScript	17-10-2012	21
Akashic	Liutos/cl-github-page		Common Lisp	14-06-2012	46
antwar	antwarjs/antwar	mit	JavaScript	22-02-2015	461
Appernetic			Web	20-01-2016
assemble	assemble/assemble	mit	JavaScript	22-09-2012	3790
Automad		MIT	PHP
awestruct	awestruct/awestruct	mit	Ruby	22-02-2010	272
AYM CMS	lethain/aym-cms	mit	Python	15-09-2008	57
baker	taylorchu/baker	gpl-2.0	Perl	31-05-2013	60
Balloon	gschier/balloon	ISC	JavaScript	11-10-2014	25
BAM	twilson63/bam	MIT	JavaScript	18-02-2012	14
bashblog	cfenollosa/bashblog	GPL-3.0	Shell	21-02-2013	959
bazinga	ap0calypse/bazinga	gpl-3.0	Perl	30-06-2011	16
Beetle	cknv/beetle	mit	Python	13-07-2014	2
Benjen	daeken/Benjen	WTFPL	Python	13-03-2013	180
Bitbucket Pages
Blacksmith	flatiron/blacksmith	mit	JavaScript	26-11-2011	563
Blatter		MIT	Python
BlazeBlogger		GPL-3.0	Perl
bliper		BSD-2-Clause	Perl
Blode	stackoverflow/blode		JavaScript	26-12-2011	9
blogc	blogc/blogc	bsd-3-clause	C	15-04-2015	129
blogc++		WTFPL	C++
Blogen	ipconfiger/blogen	gpl-3.0	Python	18-10-2012	18
blogit	oz123/blogit	BSD-3-Clause	Python	22-11-2012	11
Blogofile	EnigmaCurry/blogofile	MIT	Python	02-03-2009	334
blogpy	travisred/blogpy	gpl-3.0	Python	18-10-2012	21
blosxom		MIT	Perl	28-02-2002
Blug	jeffknupp/blug	MIT	Python	11-07-2012	160
Bonsai	benschwarz/bonsai	mit	Ruby	02-12-2009	293
Bramble MVC	iansullivan88/bramble-mvc	mit	JavaScript	12-04-2014	7
Bread	pvorb/node-bread	mit	JavaScript	24-08-2011	11
Bricolage CMS	bricoleurs/bricolage	(BSD-3-Clause AND LGPL-2.1 AND CC-BY-SA-2.5)	Perl	23-04-2009	109
Broccoli Taco	moudy/broccoli-taco	MIT	JavaScript	24-07-2014	95
brochure	sstephenson/brochure	mit	Ruby	12-10-2010	356
Bryar		Artistic-1.0-Perl	Perl
Bunto	bunto/bunto	mit	Ruby	31-12-2014	9
buster	axitkhurana/buster	mit	Python	16-10-2013	776
Cabin	CabinJS/Cabin	mit	JavaScript	23-05-2013	483
Cactus	eudicots/Cactus	other	Python	28-02-2011	3344
Calepin	jokull/calepin	isc	JavaScript	17-04-2012	132
Carew	carew/carew	mit	PHP	16-12-2012	89
catsup	whtsky/Catsup	mit	Python	06-07-2012	135
Cecil	Cecilapp/Cecil	mit	PHP	10-09-2013	96
Chili	clvrobj/chili	mit	Python	10-06-2012	28
Chisel	dz/chisel	mit	HTML	02-03-2009	67
Chronicle	skx/chronicle2	(GPL-3.0 OR Artistic-1.0-Perl)	Perl	18-09-2014	16
Cipherpress	lejonet/Cipherpress	GPL-2.0	Python	21-07-2011	6
cl-blog-generator	hugoduncan/cl-blog-generator	bsd-2-clause	Common Lisp	05-03-2009	9
Cloud Cannon
CMintS	cmints/cmints	mit	JavaScript	23-12-2017	28
cobalt.rs	cobalt-org/cobalt.rs	mit	Rust	28-10-2014	806
Codex	logicalparadox/codex	MIT	JavaScript	06-10-2011	64
Coisas	fiatjaf/coisas	mit	JavaScript	05-05-2014	284
coleslaw	coleslaw-org/coleslaw	bsd-2-clause	Common Lisp	19-02-2011	436
Composer	shazow/composer	other	Python	16-10-2011	43
Contentful
Cory	leo/cory	mit	JavaScript	24-01-2016	61
cub	patcoll/cub	MIT	PHP	18-03-2010	3
cyrax	piranha/cyrax	isc	Python	16-08-2011	38
cytoplasm	startling/cytoplasm	mit	Python	14-12-2011	13
Dapper	markdbenson/dapper	MIT	Perl	18-02-2014	36
Daux.io	justinwalsh/daux.io	MIT		03-06-2013	4633
deplate	tomtom/deplate	gpl-2.0	Ruby	09-11-2009	12
Desi	DearDesi/desirae	apache-2.0	JavaScript	03-01-2015	14
django-medusa	mtigas/django-medusa	other	Python	04-11-2011	331
django-staticgen	mishbahr/django-staticgen	bsd-3-clause	Python	26-11-2015	5
djangothis	amitu/djangothis	other	Python	14-08-2013	49
DocPad	docpad/docpad	MIT	CoffeeScript	17-03-2011	3006
Docta	05bit/docta	bsd-3-clause	HTML	09-04-2014	5
Docusaurus	facebook/docusaurus	MIT	JavaScript	20-06-2017	16770
Drapache	louissobel/Drapache	mit	Python	10-04-2012	203
drfrederson	klml/drfrederson	mit	PHP	31-08-2013	9
dropbox-blog	markashleybell/dropbox-blog		Python	09-03-2012	6
Dropplets	johnroper100/dropplets	MIT	PHP	07-02-2013	1614
DropPress	Reiot/droppress		JavaScript	17-09-2012	3
Drupan	fallenhitokiri/drupan	BSD-2-Clause	Python	16-09-2011	41
DSSG	kambrium/dssg	mit	D	11-05-2017	12
DSW	dfr62/dsw		Shell	20-10-2014	8
dwttool	kambrium/dwttool	mit	D	26-05-2017	1
dynamicmatic	nex3/dynamicmatic	mit	Ruby	08-10-2009	45
Easystatic	easystatic/easystatic	apache-2.0	JavaScript	14-03-2016	48
ecstatic	samrat/ecstatic	EPL-1.0	Clojure	16-01-2013	20
electro	caldwell/electro		Perl	13-11-2013	2
Eleventy	11ty/eleventy	mit	JavaScript	27-11-2017	5426
Elyse	FSX/elyse	mit	Python	01-04-2012	2
embellih	boscoh/embellish	bsd-2-clause	JavaScript	08-06-2013	10
enfield	fortes/enfield	mit	CoffeeScript	28-10-2012	86
Engineer	tylerbutler/engineer	mit	Python	14-03-2012	22
Equiprose	thibaultCha/Equiprose	MIT	JavaScript	25-11-2013	12
Fairytale	46Bit/fairytale	mit	Ruby	30-03-2012	6
FantasticWindmill	sylvainhalle/FantasticWindmill	gpl-3.0	PHP	25-01-2013	12
fBlog		GPL-3.0	Fortran
Firedrop2		BSD-3-Clause	Python
Firmant		BSD-3-Clause	Python
fjord	dkuntz2/fjord	other	Python	28-12-2012	1
Flamel	ipavl/flamel	mit	F#	26-10-2014	2
Fledermaus	sapegin/fledermaus	mit	JavaScript	27-09-2015	75
flim	shapeshed/flim	mit	JavaScript	02-02-2013	15
Floyd	nikcub/floyd	bsd-2-clause	Python	23-02-2012	12
FMPP		Apache-2.0	Java
ford.py	citruspi/ford.py	mit	Python	30-01-2013	2
Frank	blahed/frank	mit	Ruby	15-01-2010	419
Franklin	bryanbraun/franklin	MIT	Ruby	13-06-2014	132
Frog	greghendershott/frog	MIT	Racket	12-03-2013	748
Frozen-Flask	Frozen-Flask/Frozen-Flask	other	Python	24-12-2010	632
Funnel	shuhaowu/Funnel	gpl-3.0	Python	13-02-2012	12
Garoozis	aguerrera/Garoozis	other	F#	22-04-2011	9
Gatsby	gatsbyjs/gatsby	mit	JavaScript	21-05-2015	44202
Gen	trq/Gen	mit	PHP	04-09-2012	12
Genesis	samstefan/genesis		JavaScript	05-07-2013	5
Gerablog	paulohrpinheiro/gerablog	mit	Ruby	26-12-2016	8
gettheshitdone	johannesboyne/gettheshitdone	mit	JavaScript	30-11-2013	1
ghost-render	mixu/ghost-render		JavaScript	06-10-2014	193
GitHub Pages
GitLab Pages
Glyph	h3rald/glyph	other	Ruby	24-04-2009	76
Go-Static!	colynb/generator-go-static	mit	JavaScript	10-09-2013	23
goblog	icub3d/goblog	MIT	Go	27-01-2013	23
Goldbarg	Schnouki/Golbarg	gpl-3.0	Python	27-02-2010	17
gollum-site	dreverri/gollum-site	MIT	Ruby	21-10-2010	252
gor	wendal/gor	BSD-3-Clause	Go	08-01-2013	595
gostatic	piranha/gostatic	isc	Go	17-07-2012	360
Grain	sysgears/grain	(Apache-2.0 AND MIT)	Groovy	11-10-2013	148
Grav	getgrav/grav	mit	PHP	02-08-2014	11960
Grav Administration Panel	getgrav/grav-plugin-admin	mit	CSS	04-08-2015	295
Graze	mikoskinen/graze	MIT	C#	04-02-2012	119
grender	peterbourgon/grender	BSD-3-Clause	Go	29-05-2012	55
Griffin	pawandubey/griffin	apache-2.0	Java	16-06-2015	25
Grow	grow/grow	mit	Python	17-09-2013	335
Growl	xfire/growl	GPL-2.0	Python	23-03-2009	62
grunt-generator	clavery/grunt-generator	mit	JavaScript	19-12-2012	25
GSL	imatix/gsl	gpl-3.0	C	11-10-2010	511
guetzli	muellermichel/guetzli	(LGPL-3.0 OR GPL-3.0)	Python	09-12-2015	33
gulp-ssg	paulwib/gulp-ssg	MIT	JavaScript	06-03-2014	48
Gustav	futape/gustav	BSD-3-Clause	PHP	15-01-2015	8
habit	punkave/habit	MIT	JavaScript	20-03-2014	6
haggis	tych0/haggis	other	Haskell	25-01-2013	10
Hakyll	jaspervdj/hakyll	other	Haskell	02-12-2009	2145
Halwa	mhlakhani/halwa	mit	Python	01-02-2013	11
Hammer
hanayo	disoul/hanayo		JavaScript	03-11-2015	11
handcrank			Python
Handle	gilbitron/handle	mit	PHP	19-03-2016	24
handroll	handroll/handroll	bsd-2-clause	Python	02-05-2014	15
happyplan	happyplan/happyplan	mit	JavaScript	23-01-2013	81
Harmonic	JSRocksHQ/harmonic	mit	JavaScript	15-04-2014	293
haroopress	rhiokim/haroopress	MIT	JavaScript	27-02-2012	163
Harp	sintaxi/harp	MIT	JavaScript	03-12-2012	4870
Hastie	mkaz/hastie	mit	Go	26-02-2012	154
Haunt		GPL-3.0-or-later	Scheme
Heckle	marijnh/heckle	other	JavaScript	04-09-2012	345
Helpful Site	g4b1nagy/helpful-site	unlicense	Python	25-05-2014	12
Hepek	sake92/hepek	apache-2.0	Scala	04-02-2018	64
Hexo	hexojs/hexo	mit	JavaScript	23-09-2012	30365
HiD	genehack/HiD	Artistic-1.0-Perl	Perl	29-04-2012	27
High Voltage	thoughtbot/high_voltage	mit	Ruby	21-04-2009	2987
Hobix	hobix/hobix	other	Ruby	23-08-2009	11
HSC	mbethke/hsc	gpl-2.0	C	21-09-1998	7
hublo	pyr/hublo	isc	Emacs Lisp	01-09-2015	25
HubPress	HubPress/hubpress.io	mit	CSS	01-02-2015	2852
Hugo	gohugoio/hugo	apache-2.0	Go	04-07-2013	43864
Hyde	hyde/hyde	mit	Python	07-01-2011	1533
Hydrastic	bpizzi/Hydrastic	mit	PHP	06-05-2011	3
igapyon	igapyon/igapyonv3	Apache-2.0	Java	27-06-2015	3
igor	aconbere/igor	mit	Python	22-07-2009	16
Ikiwiki
ink	InkProject/ink		Go	14-02-2015	938
ipsum genera	dom96/ipsumgenera	mit	Nim	18-08-2013	48
JAGSS	esonderegger/jagss	mit	Python	08-01-2013	3
JBake	jbake-org/jbake	mit	Java	03-03-2013	818
Jedie	mattn/jedie	mit	Go	22-11-2013	122
Jekxll	osaris/jekxyl		PHP	06-01-2013	6
Jekyde	zohooo/jekyde	MIT	JavaScript	30-04-2013	53
Jekyll	jekyll/jekyll	mit	Ruby	20-10-2008	40348
Jekyll Admin	jekyll/jekyll-admin	mit	JavaScript	19-05-2016	2241
Jekyll Now	barryclark/jekyll-now	mit	CSS	07-02-2014	6699
Jekytrum	georgeOsdDev/jekytrum		Scala	27-10-2014	1
jem-press	stsievert/jem-press	GPL-3.0	CSS	30-05-2014	2
Jen	rfunduk/jen	mit	CSS	18-09-2011	4
jigsaw	tightenco/jigsaw	mit	PHP	25-05-2015	1505
jinjet	jokull/jinjet	isc	Python	16-05-2012	5
jkl	drone/jkl	mit	Go	02-09-2012	134
Jott	jonsherrard/jott	unlicense	JavaScript	14-02-2013	73
Journo	jashkenas/journo	MIT	CoffeeScript	28-02-2013	428
Jr	xeoncross/jr	MIT	HTML	17-05-2014	763
jssg	agrison/jssg	MIT	Java	21-02-2013	17
jstatico	egeozcan/jstatico	mit	JavaScript	13-04-2014	2
kalastatic	kalamuna/kalastatic	MIT	JavaScript	31-12-2014	37
Kel	koostudios/kel	MIT	CoffeeScript	07-05-2012	15
Kerouac	jaredhanson/kerouac	mit	JavaScript	11-11-2012	80
Kirby	getkirby/starterkit		PHP	04-07-2018	76
kkr	dchest/kkr	bsd-2-clause	Go	23-10-2013	10
Korma	practicingruby/korma		Ruby	31-03-2009	72
Kulfon	kulfonjs/kulfon	other	JavaScript	16-10-2016	97
Lambda Pad	gar1t/lambdapad	apache-2.0	Erlang	23-06-2014	110
Lannister	wjlroe/lannister	CC-BY-SA-3.0	Go	27-04-2011	15
Lanyon	arthurk/lanyon	bsd-3-clause	Python	29-07-2010	10
larassg	andygwood/larassg		PHP	16-10-2014	2
Latemp			Perl
lava	johannhof/lava	mit	Rust	16-10-2014	4
Laze	avdgaag/laze	mit	Ruby	27-01-2010	3
lazyblorg	novoid/lazyblorg	gpl-3.0	Python	19-10-2013	184
Leeflets	Leeflets/leeflets	MIT	PHP	01-08-2012	129
Lektor	lektor/lektor	other	Python	19-12-2015	3275
Lenscap	honza/lenscap	bsd-2-clause	Python	16-10-2014	97
Leo		GPL-2.0	C++
Letterpress	an0/Letterpress	other	Python	01-02-2013	671
lettersmith	gordonbrander/lettersmith		Lua	12-10-2014	18
lightning	borismus/lightning	MIT	Python	11-03-2012	90
liquidluck	avelino/liquidluck		Python	03-09-2011	340
Logya	yaph/logya	mit	Python	21-08-2011	15
Luapress	Fizzadar/Luapress	mit	Lua	13-02-2013	167
Machined	petebrowne/machined	mit	Ruby	06-10-2011	31
Madoko	houshuang/madoko	apache-2.0	JavaScript	21-11-2014	41
Magneto	donmelton/magneto	mit	Ruby	17-12-2012	125
makebakery	datagrok/makebakery	AGPL-3.0+ WITH Autoconf-exception-3.0	Makefile	19-07-2011	69
makeblog	fyhuang/makeblog	bsd-2-clause	Python	10-05-2012	10
Makefly	blankoworld/makefly	GPL-3.0	Lua	25-06-2012	17
makesite.py	sunainapai/makesite	mit	Python	17-03-2018	1311
Markbox	myfreeweb/markbox		Python	14-11-2012	96
Markdoc	zacharyvoase/markdoc	unlicense	Python	08-04-2010	342
markdown-styles	mixu/markdown-styles	BSD-3-Clause	HTML	15-02-2013	1502
Markx	jgallen23/markx	mit	JavaScript	28-01-2012	131
massimo	petebrowne/massimo	mit	Ruby	14-11-2009	10
Maven Site Plugin		Apache-2.0	Java
mdwiki	Dynalon/mdwiki	AGPL-3.0	JavaScript	28-09-2013	2872
Mecha	mecha-cms/mecha	gpl-3.0	PHP	26-04-2014	67
meinhof	miguelibero/meinhof	mit	PHP	29-04-2012	4
metalsmith	segmentio/metalsmith	MIT	JavaScript	04-02-2014	7449
Miblo	rafalp/Miblo	BSD-2-Clause	PHP	12-04-2012	6
Middleman	middleman/middleman	mit	Ruby	27-07-2009	6609
Minimal	lutzroeder/Minimal	mit	JavaScript	01-01-2017	59
MinoriWiki	phoenixlzx/MinoriWiki	mit	JavaScript	23-03-2015	198
Misakai Baker	Kelindar/misakai-baker	apache-2.0	C#	17-10-2014	41
misaki	liquidz/misaki	other	Clojure	20-03-2012	327
MkDocs	mkdocs/mkdocs	bsd-2-clause	Python	11-01-2014	9962
mksite	clehner/mksite	other	Awk	03-01-2014	9
monkeyman	wspringer/monkeyman	gpl-2.0	Scala	03-02-2012	47
Mulder	dragan/mulder	mit	C#	03-05-2012	35
Muleify	vokeio/muleify	mpl-2.0	JavaScript	14-07-2016	14
mynt	Anomareh/mynt	other	Python	04-12-2011	356
NanoBlogger		GPL-3.0	Shell
Nanoc	nanoc/nanoc		Ruby	03-05-2007	1838
nanogen	epochblue/nanogen	mit	Python	13-10-2014	10
NestaCMS	gma/nesta	mit	Ruby	27-11-2008	898
Netlify Drop
Neverland	demon386/Neverland		JavaScript	16-09-2012	2
Newcomen		GPL-3.0	Perl
Next.js	zeit/next.js	mit	JavaScript	05-10-2016	47952
nib	jreese/nib	mit	Python	28-09-2012	16
Nibbleblog	dignajar/nibbleblog	other	PHP	21-07-2012	219
Nico	lepture/nico	bsd-3-clause	JavaScript	08-12-2012	281
Nikola	getnikola/nikola	mit	Python	14-04-2012	1887
node-blog	creationix/node-blog		JavaScript	29-01-2010	78
node-qssg	shanewholloway/node-qssg	mit	JavaScript	05-03-2013	1
nodeache	nunull/nodeache	mit	JavaScript	06-01-2014	3
noflo-jekyll	noflo/noflo-jekyll	MIT	CoffeeScript	12-11-2012	216
Nuxt.js	nuxt/nuxt.js	other	JavaScript	26-10-2016	27024
o-blog	renard/o-blog	WTFPL	Emacs Lisp	06-01-2012	261
Oak	marc0s/oak	wtfpl	Python	27-05-2010	9
obelisk	BennyHallett/obelisk	mit	Elixir	01-07-2014	348
Ocam	toddlucas/ocam	mit	C#	12-02-2012	16
Octopress	octopress/octopress	mit	Ruby	17-11-2013	1711
onessg	RyanZim/onessg	mit	JavaScript	26-07-2016	9
operator-DD3	operator-dd3/operator-dd3	unlicense	Lua	18-06-2014	4
OpooPress	opoo/opoopress	apache-2.0	Java	19-06-2013	110
Orca	blaesus/orca		Python	08-03-2014	1
Orchid	orchidhq/Orchid	lgpl-3.0	Kotlin	19-03-2018	362
Pagegen	oliverfields/pagegen_v2		Python	11-03-2015	17
Pagen	jawerty/pagen	mit	JavaScript	28-03-2013	36
Pancake.io	hassox/pancake	mit	Ruby	15-05-2009	234
pansite	wcaleb/website	CC-BY-SA-3.0	HTML	01-05-2012	64
Papery		Artistic-1.0-Perl	Perl
Pelican	getpelican/pelican	GPL-3.0	Python	16-10-2010	9607
Perun	hashobject/perun	epl-1.0	Clojure	22-05-2015	334
Petrify	caolan/petrify	mit	JavaScript	31-07-2010	264
Phenomic	phenomic/phenomic	mit	JavaScript	01-09-2015	3325
Phileas	farvardin/phileas	MIT	JavaScript	24-05-2014	3
PhlyBlog	phly/PhlyBlog	BSD-2-Clause	PHP	30-05-2012	44
PieCrust	ludovicchabant/piecrust	Apache-2.0	PHP	02-03-2011	244
Pilcrow	ljcooke/pilcrow	mit	Python	05-12-2009	14
Pith	mdub/pith	mit	Ruby	04-06-2010	38
PMBlog	lizheming/PMBlog		PHP	10-09-2013	63
poet	jsantell/poet	mit	JavaScript	02-07-2012	579
Pointless	scarwu/Pointless	mit	PHP	01-04-2012	16
Polo	agonzalezro/polo	mit	Go	10-11-2013	42
poole	obensonne/poole	GPL-3.0		28-06-2011	32
pop	alexyoung/pop	mit	JavaScript	20-07-2011	64
PowerSite	Jaykul/PowerSite		C#	23-10-2014	18
Pretzel	Code52/pretzel	ms-pl	C#	30-01-2012	591
Prismic
Propeller	thegreatsunra/propeller	mit	ApacheConf	26-11-2013	17
Prose
Prosopopee	Psycojoker/prosopopee	gpl-3.0	Python	08-12-2015	178
Pulse CMS			PHP
Punch	laktek/punch	mit	JavaScript	20-03-2012	1190
PyBlosxom	pyblosxom/pyblosxom	other	Python	09-12-2011	64
PyBlue	ialbert/pyblue-central	MIT	Python	09-08-2013	28
Pyll	arthurk/pyll	bsd-3-clause	Python	27-03-2011	27
Qgoda	gflohr/qgoda	other	Perl	23-05-2016	20
Quietly Confident		Artistic-1.0-Perl	Perl
Quill	theycallmeswift/quill	Beerware	JavaScript	24-03-2012	52
RakeWeb	rweald/rakeweb	Apache-2.0	Ruby	16-01-2012	1
rant	lrvick/rant	other	Python	15-09-2011	9
Rassmalog	sunaku/rassmalog	isc	Ruby	09-02-2009	5
rawk	kisom/rawk	other	Roff	01-02-2011	42
reacat	reacat/reacat	other	JavaScript	02-09-2014	24
react-static	rpearce/react-static	mit	JavaScript	06-10-2015	27
react-static-site	BradDenver/react-static-site		JavaScript	29-12-2014	384
reactivate	azmenak/reactivate	MPL-2.0	CoffeeScript	27-01-2015	12
Read the Docs (RTD)	readthedocs/readthedocs.org	mit	Python	16-08-2010	5813
Really Static	trajano/really-static	gpl-3.0	PHP	25-02-2014	1
Refrain	shootaroo/refrain	MIT	JavaScript	30-11-2014	3
regenerate			Lisp
reptar	reptar/reptar	mit	JavaScript	24-08-2015	268
Riji	Songmu/p5-Riji	Artistic-1.0-Perl	Perl	28-07-2013	19
Rizzo	fifthposition/rizzo	mit	Groovy	10-05-2011	23
romulus	felixge/node-romulus	mit	JavaScript	19-10-2012	159
Roots	jescalan/roots	other	CoffeeScript	18-09-2012	1476
Rosid	electerious/Rosid	mit	JavaScript	27-12-2015	131
rstblog	mitsuhiko/rstblog	other	Python	23-11-2010	204
RubyFrontier	mattneub/RubyFrontier	MIT	Ruby	01-10-2011	15
Ruhoh	ruhoh/ruhoh.rb	MIT	Ruby	29-03-2012	631
s2gen	denisftw/s2gen	mit	Scala	21-03-2016	11
Sculpin	sculpin/sculpin	mit	PHP	21-12-2011	1362
Second Crack	marcoarment/secondcrack	other	PHP	05-01-2012	832
serif	aprescott/serif	mit	Ruby	04-11-2012	117
serious-chicken	rtorr/serious-chicken	mit	Python	02-12-2012	2
Serve	jlong/serve	other	Ruby	31-05-2008	846
SG	maxailloud/SG	other	PHP	01-03-2012	4
sg.py	venthur/sg	GPL-3.0	Python	25-07-2010	2
SGG	Charlesworth/SSG		Ruby	07-09-2014	2
shelob	rubyworks/shelob	other	Ruby	11-07-2012	4
Shire	sangupta/shire	Apache-2.0	Java	07-03-2012	2
Shonku	kushaldas/shonku	gpl-3.0	Go	01-04-2014	9
Silex	silexlabs/Silex	gpl-3.0	TypeScript	29-09-2013	798
Simiki	tankywoo/simiki	mit	Python	12-10-2013	1044
Simple	isnowfy/simple	mit	JavaScript	07-04-2014	890
simple-static	wlangstroth/simple-static		Awk	06-04-2012	28
simple-website	alexanderte/simple-website		Go	11-10-2014	47
simsalabash	markusfisch/simsalabash	mit	Shell	25-11-2011	12
Site builder	inanimatt/site-builder	mit	PHP	09-08-2011	26
Site builder console	efdummy/Site-builder-console	mit	C#	18-10-2017
Site44			Web
SiteGen (Dart)	MikeMitterer/dart-sitegen	(Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause)	Dart	30-03-2015	33
Sitegen (MoonScript)	leafo/sitegen	MIT	Lua	31-10-2011	55
sitio	fiatjaf/sitio	mit	JavaScript	11-12-2016	43
Smallest Blogger	ranmocy/smallest-blogger	mit	CSS	10-03-2014	13
snowshoe	edvanbeinum/snowshoe		PHP	06-09-2011	7
Soapbox	arnolddevos/Soapbox	lgpl-2.1	Scala	08-10-2013	37
Socrates	honza/socrates	other	Python	25-02-2011	36
sortastatic	haldean/sortastatic	bsd-2-clause	Go	22-05-2014	3
Speechhub	pythonmg/speechhub	gpl-3.0	Python	26-03-2012	40
Spelt	njdehoog/Spelt	mit	Swift	20-07-2016	140
SPG	AdamBien/spg	apache-2.0	JavaScript	23-03-2014	27
Sphinx	sphinx-doc/sphinx	BSD-2-Clause	Python	02-01-2015	3282
Spike	static-dev/spike	other	JavaScript	13-05-2016	460
Spina	SpinaCMS/Spina	other	HTML	04-03-2015	1726
Spine	varl/spine	mit	Java	16-02-2014	3
Spress	spress/Spress	mit	PHP	29-09-2013	368
Spring Board	htaidirt/SpringBoard	MIT	JavaScript	01-03-2013	1
Squid	geekforbrains/squid		Python	28-08-2012	10
Squirrel	nickpetty/squirrel		Python	16-04-2014	7
Stacey	kolber/stacey	mit	PHP	14-08-2009	1054
Stacktic	bahiamartins/stacktic	mit		16-09-2014	1
Stadø	lecnim/stado	MIT	Python	18-10-2013	4
StaGen	wiztools/stagen	apache-2.0	Java	30-03-2014	42
Stasis	winton/stasis	mit	Ruby	08-03-2011	688
Stasis.clj	magnars/stasis	EPL-1.0	Clojure	09-01-2014	271
Statamic			PHP
Stati	jfoucher/stati	mit	PHP	24-09-2017	19
static	nakkaya/static	EPL-1.0	Clojure	23-08-2010	179
Static Site Boilerplate	ericalli/static-site-boilerplate	mit	JavaScript	29-11-2018	1365
Static Website Starter Kit	kriasoft/static-site-starter	apache-2.0	JavaScript	11-07-2014	133
static-io	CosAnca/static-io	mit	JavaScript	25-06-2015	2
Static-weber	xorpd/static_weber	mit	Python	25-10-2014	2
static2000	judas-christ/static2000	mit	JavaScript	08-10-2014	6
staticjinja	Ceasar/staticjinja	mit	Python	21-09-2012	196
StaticMatic	staticmatic/staticmatic	mit	Ruby	01-01-2009	267
StaticMatic2	gilbert/staticmatic2	mit	Ruby	03-02-2011	56
staticpress	ravinggenius/staticpress	MIT	Ruby	26-10-2011	3
staticpy	toddsifleet/staticpy	mit	Python	15-01-2013	2
staticsite	trevorc/staticsite	BSD-3-Clause	Haskell	12-07-2012	1
Staticsmoothie		MIT	Go
StaticVolt		Artistic-1.0-Perl	Perl
Statik	thanethomson/statik	mit	Python	21-04-2016	237
Statix			Shell
Statocles	preaction/Statocles	Artistic-1.0-Perl	Perl	29-04-2014	71
Stog	zoggy/stog	gpl-3.0	OCaml	30-08-2011	62
StrangeCase	colinta/StrangeCase	other	Python	16-01-2012	46
stratic	jaubourg/stratic	mit	JavaScript	30-05-2014	3
Striker	swaroopsm/striker	mit	Ruby	14-10-2013	2
Surge
Susi	AVGP/susi	isc	JavaScript	10-05-2014	50
SWG	evilsocket/SWG	gpl-3.0	Python	13-03-2011	15
SWSG	derdon/swsg	wtfpl	Python	25-07-2010	4
Szyslak	ido50/Szyslak	gpl-3.0	JavaScript	20-10-2013	1
Tacot		MIT	Python
Tags	braceio/tags	mit	Python	17-03-2014	186
Tagy	melnikov-ivan/tagy	MIT	Python	04-09-2014	3
Tahchee	sebastien/tahchee	other	Python	11-09-2009	8
Tapestry	tapestry-cloud/tapestry	mit	PHP	15-11-2016	21
Tarbell	tarbell-project/tarbell	MIT	Python	31-12-2012	158
tclog		BSD-3-Clause	Tcl	17-03-2003
Tclssg	tclssg/tclssg	other	Tcl	23-06-2014	44
Techy	krasimir/techy	mit	JavaScript	10-02-2014	240
Templer	skx/templer	Artistic-1.0-Perl	Perl	01-12-2012	55
Text Assembler			JavaScript
Thot	wmark/thot		Python	02-05-2011	6
Tinkerer	vladris/tinkerer	BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD	Python	18-05-2013	292
toto	cloudhead/toto	mit	Ruby	27-10-2009	1417
Tribo	CarterA/Tribo	other	Objective-C	01-10-2011	44
trofaf	mna/trofaf	bsd-3-clause	Go	11-07-2013	133
Ultra simple Site Maker		GPL-3.0	Shell
Urubu	jandecaluwe/urubu	GPL-3.0	HTML	10-01-2014	168
Utterson	pepijndevos/utterson		Clojure	17-12-2009	14
Utterson	stef/utterson	agpl-3.0	Shell	29-07-2009	33
vee	estrabd/vee	wtfpl	Shell	03-10-2011	34
Vegetables	partageit/vegetables	mit	JavaScript	15-02-2015	14
vimwiki	vimwiki/vimwiki	MIT	Vim script	15-11-2012	4475
Voldemort	semk/voldemort	apache-2.0	Python	18-09-2011	46
volt	bow/volt	BSD-3-Clause	Python	06-03-2012	43
VoodooPad			App
VuePress	vuejs/vuepress	mit	JavaScript	12-04-2018	16286
wadoo	alpacaaa/wadoo	other	PHP	01-10-2012	11
Wallflower	book/App-Wallflower	Artistic-1.0-Perl	Perl	03-09-2012	6
Wanna	shaoshuai0102/wanna		JavaScript	05-07-2012	6
Weaver	davidsiaw/weaver	mit	JavaScript	29-06-2015	3
Webby	TwP/webby	MIT	Ruby	28-04-2008	271
webgen	gettalong/webgen	GPL-3.0	Ruby	07-07-2008	98
webgen	webgen-org/webgen	other	HTML	30-04-2012	2
Webhook	webhook/webhook	mit	JavaScript	14-01-2014	664
Websleydale	kalgynirae/websleydale	mit	Python	05-05-2013	4
Wheat	creationix/wheat	other	JavaScript	01-04-2010	1370
Wikismith	wikismith/wikismith	MIT	JavaScript	23-07-2014	17
Wintersmith	jnordberg/wintersmith	mit	CoffeeScript	02-02-2012	3490
wok	mythmon/wok	other	Python	03-02-2011	114
Woods	paperjs/woods	other	JavaScript	01-04-2013	112
wordsister	kaihendry/wordsister	MIT	PHP	05-04-2013	1
WP2Static	WP2Static/wp2static	unlicense	PHP	27-12-2016	632
WPWMM4	uzsolt/wpwmm4	other	Makefile, m4	01-10-2017	5
Wyam	Wyamio/Wyam	mit	C#	29-02-2020	30
Yana	dariubs/yana	MIT	Python	15-09-2014	11
yassg	sma/yassg	BSD-3-Clause	JavaScript	10-08-2012	3
Yellow	datenstrom/yellow	gpl-2.0	PHP	07-04-2013	295
Yggdrasil		GPL-2.0	Perl	17-07-2002
Yozuch	akrylysov/yozuch	bsd-3-clause	Python	24-04-2014	22
yst	jgm/yst	gpl-2.0	Haskell	01-08-2009	296
zas	imdario/zas	agpl-3.0	Go	31-03-2013	100
ZenWeb	seattlerb/zenweb	MIT	Ruby	18-02-2009	62
Zine	mikekreuzer/zine	mit	Ruby	24-01-2017	5
zodiac	nuex/zodiac	mit	Awk	22-09-2011	187
zola	getzola/zola	mit	Rust	06-12-2016	3435
Zucchini		Artistic-1.0-Perl	Perl

That's quite a lot to choose from. Personally I have experience with Middleman and Hugo, so that will be my frame of reference. Here are my personal pros and cons concerning Hugo, from a beginners' perspective:

Pros

Hugo is fast. I mean really, really fast. Stupid fast. Run Forrest Run fast.
Easy to set up (well, compared to Middleman at least). No Ruby or Node versioning issues to contend with, just install the Hugo binary, and you're good to go.
Hugo can talk to data feeds nicely. It's data driven content features make it a piece of cake to generate HTML based on json/csv feeds.
Pagination is easy to implement
Writing your own ~~helpers~~shortcodes is dead easy
Decent support for traversing local files
Helpful community
Good documentation
Front Matter & Taxonomies provide an easy way to handle content metadata
Handy tools to migrate from other platforms
Loads of free themes that work out of the box (GridSide used to power this site)
An easy to learn template language

Cons

Multilingual isn't quite supported yet out of the box and is fidgety to set up
No XML support for data feeds. Only JSON/CSV.
Asset management/compilation isn't built in and is a pain in the ass to set up. At the time of writing there's Huggle & Hugulp. They both have their pros and cons and try to solve the asset problem admirably but still feel clunky as they're not part of Hugo. Middleman is much more flexible and feature rich in this regard.

I haven't really got much more to say on the matter. If you want a static site generator that's fast and just works you could do much worse than Hugo. As always, I look forward to reading your opinions in the comments below.