Hakyll and Hugo are both open source static site generators. Hakyll is written in Haskell and Hugo is written in Go.
| Property | Hakyll | Hugo |
|---|---|---|
| Language | Haskell | Go |
| Templates | Hakyll | Go |
| License | BSD-3-Clause | Apache-2.0 |
Static sites are fast, secure, easy to deploy, and manageable using version control.
Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static sites, mostly aimed at small-to-medium sites and personal blogs. It is written in a very configurable way and uses an xmonad-like DSL for configuration.
Integration with pandoc gives us markdown and TeX support, including syntax highlighting and other goodies.
Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website.
Hugo makes use of Markdown files with front matter for meta data.
A typical website of moderate size can be rendered in a fraction of a second. A good rule of thumb is that Hugo takes around 1 millisecond for each piece of content.
It is written to work well with any kind of website including blogs, tumbles and docs.