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Here's a vote for Hugo, the static site generator written in Go. It's blazing fast.

I use it for my blog and love it.

> It's blazing fast.

This seems like an odd value proposition for a static site generator.

Even a really shitty, unoptimized single threaded non-incremental build system shouldn’t struggle too hard to compile a static site. And even if it does, if it has a good amount of features, it shouldn’t be a problem for most use-cases.

Using jekyll I've gotten 30+ minute build times for sites. SSGs aren't only useful for sites with a single-digit number of pages.

I switched from Jekyll, it's amazing to me how slow it was to build a simple hundred pages of HTML. What Hugo does in Uber a second took Jekyll several minutes.

Have you tried NextJS or Gatsby?

Gatsby and its magic comes no where near Hugo, hugo is basically just select the theme and write markdown Gatsby and its quirks, are just too heavy. I would rather suggest Next.js.

Yep, Next.js export build to static HTML is pretty impressive.

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