[ripley12]

I've been using Hugo for a few years. I like it generally, but I have mixed feelings about using Go for templating. Compilation and generation is blazing fast, which is great for short edit-compile-debug cycles.

On the other hand, Go's lack of generics makes working with collections harder than it should be... and much of templating involves working with collections.

To give a concrete example, I wanted to create a page where I group categories by post count. Hugo has methods to group pages, but not categories, so I rolled my own imperative grouping code. It wasn't difficult, but it would have been simpler to do declaratively in many other ecosystems (say, .NET with LINQ).