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## Why did you write Hugo?
I wrote Hugo ultimately for a few reasons. First, I was disappointed with
WordPress, my then website solution. It rendered slowly. I couldn't create
content as efficiently as I wanted to and needed to be online to write
posts. The constant security updates and the horror stories of people's
hacked blogs. I hated how content was written in HTML instead of the much
simpler Markdown. Overall, I felt like it got in my way more than it helped
WordPress, my then website solution. With it, I couldn't create
content as efficiently as I wanted to.
It rendered slowly. It required me to be online to write
posts: plus its constant security updates and the horror stories of people's
hacked blogs! I hated how content for it was written only in HTML, instead of the much
simpler Markdown. Overall, I felt like WordPress got in my way
much more than it helped me. It kept
me from writing great content.
I looked at existing static site generators like [Jekyll][], [Middleman][] and [nanoc][].
All had complicated dependencies to install and took far longer to render
my blog with hundreds of posts than I felt was acceptable. I wanted
a framework to be able to get rapid feedback while making changes to the
templates, and the 5+-minute render times was just too slow. In general,
they were also very blog minded and didn't have the ability to have
different content types and flexible URLs.
I looked at the existing static site generators
like [Jekyll][], [Middleman][] and [Nanoc][].
All had complicated installation dependencies and took far longer to render
my blog with its hundreds of posts than I felt was acceptable. I wanted
a framework to be able to give me rapid feedback while making changes to the
templates, and the 5+-minute render times were just too slow. In general,
they were also very blog minded and didn't have the ability to provide
other content types and flexible URLs.
[Jekyll]: http://jekyllrb.com/
[Middleman]: https://middlemanapp.com/
[nanoc]: http://nanoc.ws/
[Nanoc]: http://nanoc.ws/
I wanted to develop a fast and full-featured website framework without
dependencies. The [Go language][] seemed to have all of the features I needed
I wanted to develop a fast and full-featured website framework without any
dependencies. The [Go language][] seemed to have all the features I needed
in a language. I began developing Hugo in Go and fell in love with the
language. I hope you will enjoy using (and contributing to) Hugo as much
language. I hope you will enjoy using Hugo (and contributing to it) as much
as I have writing it.
—Steve Francia (@spf13)
[Go language]: http://golang.org/ "The Go Programming Language"
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