--- title: Hugo Documentation linktitle: Hugo description: Hugo is the world's fastest static website engine. It's written in Go (aka Golang) and developed by bep, spf13 and friends. date: 2017-02-01 publishdate: 2017-02-01 menu: main: parent: "section name" weight: 01 weight: 01 #rem draft: false slug: aliases: [] toc: false layout: documentation-home --- Hugo is the **world's fastest static website engine.** It's written in Go (aka Golang) and developed by [bep](https://github.com/bep), [spf13](https://github.com/spf13) and [friends](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/graphs/contributors). Below you will find some of the most common and helpful pages from our documentation.