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I used Hugo for a while, but I feel it's really held back by its templating language.

I've recently moved to Gutenberg[0], which is very nearly a clone of Hugo except for the templating language. After some benchmarks[1], I concluded that it's even faster than Hugo, and the ergonomics of using the templating language are far, far better.

[0] https://www.getgutenberg.io/

[1] https://www.codesections.com/blog/gutenberg-vs-hugo/

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It is also held back by its implicit stuff, and counter-intuitive internal logic. Jekyll is infinitely more intuitive. I tried both: went from Jekyll to Hugo, and back and I'd never touch Hugo again.

I would also mention that sometimes the Go internals leak and it is also not convenient.

> but I feel it's really held back by its templating language.

That's very subjective. It's templating language is one of the reasons why I use Hugo. It reminds me very much of Lisp ({{ or $foo $bar }}).. parens replaced with double curly braces.

Now, everyone doesn't like Lisp :)

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