Show HN: Blades – fast static site generator written in Rust

Re:Show HN: Blades – fast static site generator written in Rust by bacondude3 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @01:27AM (#24762545)

Thanks for the suggestion!

Some of the other commenters have pointed out that Hugo also has standalone binaries, I just didn't notice them last time I looked. What made you choose Zola over Hugo?

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Re:Show HN: Blades – fast static site generator written in Rust by rudedogg on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:33AM (#24762865)

I think the main reason was the built in syntax highlighting, and simplicity. I've decided to move away from themes, and just code simple CSS by hand - so Zola kind of fits that mindset.

Hugo definitely has more features. If you think you'll want to do some complex hierarchies in your blog/site, or want a lot of themes to pick from I'd go with Hugo.

Hopefully that helps!

Edit: I think Hugo used to require Pygments (a pip package), but it looks like that's no longer the case. If it did that probably nudged me towards Zola too.

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