I am evaluating Hugo for generating my static site that will potentially generate about 20 posts a day. So in about a year, there will be 7000+ posts written in markdown, that will need to be build and deployed to my production server.
I initially started with Jekyll, but the builds even for small number of pages is terribly slow, and I can't, for the life of me, understand how a seemingly basic requirement like incremental builds - building and generating only content that has changed -- is still not supported in Jekyll... #SMH.
I didn't see anything in the documentation over at gohugo.io,or in the hugo help commandline help.
But Hugo seems to have everything else I am looking for, and the builds on a small batch of posts is blazing fast, so I would really like to give it a chance.
Plus the language that it's written in, GO, was co-authored by 1 of my all-time favorite hackers -- Ken Thompson.
Hugo currently has no incremental builds. The upcoming Hugo 0.16 will be smarter about building in server watch mode (i.e. it will detect what you change and only read that, testing indicates a ~15% improvement in the common case), but the builds will still be everything.
It will eventually happen, but it is a hard problem to solve in a simple way... But Hugo is very, very fast at what it does.