I started developing my blog using Octropress (Jekyll derivative) many years back. I painfully installed it the first time (Ruby dependencies). I tried upgrading to Octopress 2.0 probably 2 years back, but I was never successfully able to install all the dependencies on my work machine. More than that, I never got it working on multiple platforms. I wished to be able to post to my blog from both home (Windows) and work (RHEL6.6), but that just wasn't possible.
Hugo was a breath of fresh air:
- Easy to install (auto-installs all the dependent go packages without a hitch, and results in a single static binary!)
- Easy to set up a web page (hardly took 10 minutes)
Having the basic web site building going, I can now tinker as I like with the layouts, config.toml, etc. Hugo has allowed me to focus more on my web site content and design than burning time figuring out how to successfully install (and keep upgraded) the web site building. (All I need to do to update hugo to the latest and greatest is: "go get -u -v github.com/spf13/hugo").
Hugo was a breath of fresh air:
- Easy to install (auto-installs all the dependent go packages without a hitch, and results in a single static binary!)
- Easy to set up a web page (hardly took 10 minutes)
Having the basic web site building going, I can now tinker as I like with the layouts, config.toml, etc. Hugo has allowed me to focus more on my web site content and design than burning time figuring out how to successfully install (and keep upgraded) the web site building. (All I need to do to update hugo to the latest and greatest is: "go get -u -v github.com/spf13/hugo").