Hugo vs Jekyll vs Pelican | What are the differences?

Hugo

Stacks969

Followers858

+ 1

Votes151

Jekyll

Stacks1.3K

Followers1.2K

+ 1

Votes225

Pelican

Stacks63

Followers84

+ 1

Votes28

Pros of Hugo

Pros of Jekyll

Pros of Pelican

41
Lightning fast
23
Single Executable
21
Easy setup
20
Great development community
18
Open source
11
Write in golang
5
LiveReload built in
5
Not HTML only - JSON, RSS
4
Hacker mindset
2
Gitlab pages integration
1
Easy to customize themes

74
Github pages integration
54
Open source
36
It's slick, customisable and hackerish
23
Easy to deploy
22
Straightforward cms for the hacker mindset
6
Gitlab pages integration
4
Best for blogging
2
Easy to integrate localization
2
Low maintenance
1
Huge plugins ecosystem
1
Authoring freedom and simplicity

7
Open source
6
Jinja2
4
Implemented in Python
4
Easy to deploy
3
Plugability
2
RestructuredText and Markdown support
1
Easy to customize
1
Can run on Github pages

Cons of Hugo

Cons of Jekyll

Cons of Pelican

3
No Plugins/Extensions
2
Template syntax not friendly

4
Build time increases exponentially as site grows
2
Lack of developments lately
1
Og doesn't work with postings dynamically

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What is Hugo?

Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data.

What is Jekyll?

Think of Jekyll as a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.

What is Pelican?

Pelican is a static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!) in reStructuredText or Markdown.

What companies use Hugo?

What companies use Jekyll?

What companies use Pelican?