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Discussion on: Top 5 Static Site Generators for 2020

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Nick • Edited

Hugo is no longer the fastest kid in town, see hugo-vs-nift.gitlab.io/. If you're looking for the fastest build times around, check out Nift (nift.cc), it's ~3 times faster than Hugo at full builds and up to 15 times faster during development from having incremental builds, and can scale to building websites with millions of pages. While it's developed in C++ as well, zero C++ knowledge is required to use it.

Just to highlight its speed capabilities, on my 2014 11" i5 macbook air running Ubuntu Nift can build ALL of the website from Hugo vs. Nift scaled up to 100k pages in under 15 seconds and can do an incremental build in 3 seconds. It also uses less than 500mb memory when building the same site scaled to 1 million pages.

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Bayu Angora

Is there any tutorial about migrating website from Hugo to Nift?

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Nick • Edited

Not really, sorry. I've been working on a few changes over the Christmas/New Years break that will work and scale better as I add more programming language esque features to the template language, though you can already use other template languages that have a lot of programming language esque features with them. The changes should be published and docs updated within a few days (adding in things like variables with different types including custom type definitions, custom function definitions and lots of useful hard coded functions, if/else if/else statements, for/foreach/while/loops etc.).

Edit: Also you should be able to use Nift with frameworks like Vue, React, Angular, etc..