Hugo and Zola are both open source static site generators. Hugo is written in Go and Zola is written in Rust.
| Property | Hugo | Zola |
|---|---|---|
| Language | Go | Rust |
| Templates | Go | Tera |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
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.
Static site generator built using the modern Rust programming language.