[jmduke]

I switched over to Hugo for my personal blog and a side project from Pelican a couple months ago. The speed is unparalleled: anecdotally, it generates a couple thousand pages in ~400ms (which would take an order of magnitude longer in Pelican). However, dealing with ACE templates was like pulling teeth, and I was considering switching away just to save me the stress; I'm glad to see that they're working on improving the actual templating process (and that ACE apparently supports base templates now?)

[bepsays]

ACE base template support was introduced in Hugo 0.14, but was now completed in Hugo 0.15 to also support using them in themes. It can really clean up your templates.

There are some cool improvements in the upcoming Go 1.6 that will make the regular Go templates a lot nicer to work with (Hugo 0.16, maybe?)