I’m a Hugo newbie (late 2021). C/PHP background, and front-end focused.

My primary reason for using Hugo is for internationalization/translation support, and easily deploying directly to Cloudflare, (etc.)

My primary issues with Hugo relate to:

1. My inexperience
2. Sometimes Hugo is counter-intuitive
3. Arm wrestling where to place data layout vs. content files (and having to separate style with content, while maintaining sanity for content translators)
4. For “designed” pages with rich styling, markdown (.md) is all but useless, and because I need to keep translations separate from html, our sites end up being defined in huge toml files.

My favorite things about Hugo so far are:

• Speed and reliability
• Friendly and helpful community