Jekyll
By far the most used generator.This needs to install a specific version of Ruby. Read that some peoble on MacOS run into trouble at one point in time. Had similar bad expiriance with Java and perl.
Read here that Liquid templates provide only basic customization. Or you would need to write an own Liquid helper. I’m not into Ruby on the other hand would I change the existing templates that much?
HUGO
This is the number two used generator. But the 3rd Next is realy close.Followed the example to get it running on my iMac (Homebrew). But after this I didn’t like the documentation. I couldn’t find the things I was looking for.
Nikola
Know about this from Mike Zamansky video 35 Blogging. He switched from Jekyll to Nikola because he is familiar with Python and not Ruby.The documentation is by far the best of all I looked at.
| Template | usage | Jekyll | Hugo | Nikola |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jinja2 | 19 | X | ||
| Liquid | 12 | X | ||
| Jade | 10 | |||
| Go Templates | 7 | X | ||
| Mako | 4 | X |
(This table was generaged with Hugo from Markdown. To paste needed to be in HTML)
