[ninefoxgambit]

I've always found Hugo easy to get running. Compared to Jekyll, Hugo was always much easier as Jekyll always seemed to throw up some Ruby or Bundler issue every time you went back to it.

I've built a lot of Hugo sites and templates, I have 10+ open source themes at https://github.com/zerostaticthemes so here are my main observations of Hugo

* The docs do need a lot of work, but the forums and stack overflow are pretty reliable sources with Hugo having enough critical mass to get answers for even obscure errors and questions. * Hugos big problem is the Go templating language. It's arcane and unintuitive. Even after years I still find myself forgetting how to do and or conditionals. * Hugos template lookup order is opinionated but one of it's strengths. * Hugos . context is opinionated but also one of it's strengths.

If you are looking for a minimal SSG then I think it's important that it's HTML based (so no Nextjs or Gatsby) - Jekyll, Hugo and 11ty are the main options in this space but there is also a wave of new options which seem worth considering. There is a great list of ssgs over at www.staticgen.com if you want to browse the up and comers.