zola (né Gutenberg)

A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in.

Documentation is available on its site or in the docs/content folder of the repository and the community can use its forum.

Comparisons with other static site generators

	Zola	Cobalt	Hugo	Pelican
Single binary
Language	Rust	Rust	Go	Python
Syntax highlighting
Sass compilation
Assets co-location
Multilingual site
Image processing
Sane & powerful template engine
Themes
Shortcodes
Internal links
Link checker
Table of contents
Automatic header anchors
Aliases
Pagination
Custom taxonomies
Search
Data files
LiveReload
Netlify support
Vercel support
Cloudflare Pages support
Breadcrumbs
Custom output formats

Supported content formats

• Zola: markdown
• Cobalt: markdown
• Hugo: markdown, asciidoc, org-mode
• Pelican: reStructuredText, markdown, asciidoc, org-mode, whatever-you-want

explanations

Hugo gets for the template engine because while it is probably the most powerful template engine in the list (after Jinja2) it personally drives me insane, to the point of writing my own template engine and static site generator. Yes, this is a bit biased.

Zola gets for multi-language support as it only has a basic support and does not (yet) offer things like i18n in templates.

Pelican notes

Many features of Pelican come from plugins, which might be tricky to use because of a version mismatch or inadequate documentation. Netlify supports Python and Pipenv but you still need to install your dependencies manually.