From 8474b9defeab3cb1ea8c697bbe16ba354b578c94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Mark D. Blackwell" Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 10:44:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Improve section 'Why did you write Hugo?' --- docs/content/overview/introduction.md | 39 +++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/content/overview/introduction.md b/docs/content/overview/introduction.md index caa077f3f..eba829789 100644 --- a/docs/content/overview/introduction.md +++ b/docs/content/overview/introduction.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -lastmod: 2016-02-20 +lastmod: 2016-08-14 date: 2013-07-01 linktitle: Introduction menu: @@ -153,31 +153,36 @@ pages. ## Why did you write Hugo? I wrote Hugo ultimately for a few reasons. First, I was disappointed with -WordPress, my then website solution. It rendered slowly. I couldn't create -content as efficiently as I wanted to and needed to be online to write -posts. The constant security updates and the horror stories of people's -hacked blogs. I hated how content was written in HTML instead of the much -simpler Markdown. Overall, I felt like it got in my way more than it helped +WordPress, my then website solution. With it, I couldn't create +content as efficiently as I wanted to. +It rendered slowly. It required me to be online to write +posts: plus its constant security updates and the horror stories of people's +hacked blogs! I hated how content for it was written only in HTML, instead of the much +simpler Markdown. Overall, I felt like WordPress got in my way +much more than it helped me. It kept me from writing great content. -I looked at existing static site generators like [Jekyll][], [Middleman][] and [nanoc][]. -All had complicated dependencies to install and took far longer to render -my blog with hundreds of posts than I felt was acceptable. I wanted -a framework to be able to get rapid feedback while making changes to the -templates, and the 5+-minute render times was just too slow. In general, -they were also very blog minded and didn't have the ability to have -different content types and flexible URLs. +I looked at the existing static site generators +like [Jekyll][], [Middleman][] and [Nanoc][]. +All had complicated installation dependencies and took far longer to render +my blog with its hundreds of posts than I felt was acceptable. I wanted +a framework to be able to give me rapid feedback while making changes to the +templates, and the 5+-minute render times were just too slow. In general, +they were also very blog minded and didn't have the ability to provide +other content types and flexible URLs. [Jekyll]: http://jekyllrb.com/ [Middleman]: https://middlemanapp.com/ -[nanoc]: http://nanoc.ws/ +[Nanoc]: http://nanoc.ws/ -I wanted to develop a fast and full-featured website framework without -dependencies. The [Go language][] seemed to have all of the features I needed +I wanted to develop a fast and full-featured website framework without any +dependencies. The [Go language][] seemed to have all the features I needed in a language. I began developing Hugo in Go and fell in love with the -language. I hope you will enjoy using (and contributing to) Hugo as much +language. I hope you will enjoy using Hugo (and contributing to it) as much as I have writing it. +—Steve Francia (@spf13) + [Go language]: http://golang.org/ "The Go Programming Language" ## Next Steps