[ryanclarke]

I love Hugo and use it for my site.

Speed didn't seem like an important feature until I was refreshing my 700 pages trying to find tweak a theme change. And now with the new 30+% speed increase in the `hugo server` command, it just got a lot better.

My favorite feature is the single, no-install, no-dependencies binary than works perfectly on all OSes. This is huge for Windows users. You may get lucky with the Ruby/Bundle madness of other static site generators on Linux, but Windows support is often lagging or non-existent. With Hugo, one binary and done.

Recommend.

[jmduke]

I agree re: speed. In my experience, speed doesn't matter until it does: I don't care about 650ms vs. 700ms, but once it passes the threshold of me alt-tabbing waiting for blog/public/ to regenerate and I lose focus, it becomes near-unbearable.

(This probably applies to all build processes, not just static site generation.)

[jacquesm]

That's the whole 'Go' community in a nutshell, speed really does matter, even for compiles. That was the one advantage Borlands' products had.

[ryanclarke]

Agree, and it can be even more pronounced. I tried to move to Octopress first and it took many seconds to generate my site (forget the fact that I never got it working right on Windows). Hugo is a few hundred milliseconds. That is a big difference and matters when I'm trying to rebuild 3-4 times a minute.

[rodgerd]

> My favorite feature is the single, no-install, no-dependencies binary than works perfectly on all OSes.

Yup. Consistent on Linux and Windows is very useful for me. The python world are pretty good about cross-platform, but not as good as Go, and the ruby world has an attitude that might best be characterised as "sneering contempt."