We're rewriting Hugo in JavaScript!

I have thought long and hard about this, and I don’t think we can wait any longer. Today is the day. I’ve been watching these JS-based static site generators pop up like gophers from the ground for too long now. All of them using all CPU cores to its fullest, showing these impressive and blazingly fast build speeds! We’re talking thousands of pages in less than a minute!

Also, it should be great to get rid of this straightjacket of a statically typed and compiled language. Imagine being able to type just about anything and it just (hopefully) works! I’ll create a branch and get started:

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I anyne doubted it: This was an April Fools Prank … We’ll of course never do something as stupid as this (and I wouldn’t know where to begin if I tried).

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