How does VitePress compare to Jekyll in terms of developer-friendliness and page build times? I still use Jekyll for small projects because it is well-documented and just works.
I have not used Jekyll, but I think it's important to note that VitePress is Vue specific. It's designed to be used with Vue components, and it's designed to produce a single page app where navigation happens client side (though there is still a statically rendered version of each page, so it works without JS). Most other static site renderers do exclusively static rendering, without the automatic progressive enhancement to SPA. And VitePress has such intelligent client side enhancement that it even does things like preload pages in the background as soon as the link appears on screen. It adds up to a very fast and light feeling experience.