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Gatsby, Hugo or plain(ish) Jekkyl.

Simple, clean, fast. Updates and viruses are a non-issue.

Depends what plugins you're talking about, but if you're a non-programmer/dev type, then you're probably better off using Wordpress as a blogging platform if some serious customisation is wanted.

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Tried gatsby recently and I hate it. Their choice to use graphql for a static site generator makes no sense to me.

Trying to build anything beyond a super generic blog is a huge chore. Hugo has a much, much better community IMO

I agree. Gatsby is one of the worst products I have ever worked with. The code itself isn't bad, but the tech stack and UX is horrible. It's the epitome of hipster JavaScript.

I'm amazed that they got funding for it...

I hate to be negative about products others have built as I tend to believe that if it "sucks" it's because I'm not the target audience.

That said, I am happy to hear I'm not the only one with this sentiment.

I’m the same way, but there’s a big difference between using a technology that’s not designed for your use case and using a technology that just sucks, and frankly gatsby is the latter. It in no way outshines any other major static site generator available today.

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