Hakyll vs Zola

Hakyll and Zola are both open source static site generators. Hakyll is written in Haskell and Zola is written in Rust.

Property Hakyll Zola
Language Haskell Rust
Templates Hakyll Tera
License BSD-3-Clause MIT

Hakyll benefits

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.

Zola benefits

Static site generator built using the modern Rust programming language.

Features

  • Taxonomies: tags and categories
  • Sass compilation
  • Built-in support for themes
  • Code highlighting themes
  • Tera template engine, and built-in shortcodes