Should I use Hugo or Quarto to make my personal website in 2024?
A comparison between Hugo (the application which generates Hugo Blox sites) and Posit’s Quarto product.
Hugo | Quarto | |
---|---|---|
Established | 2013 | 2021 |
Open Source | ✅ | ✅ |
Language | Go | Haskell, JS, Lua |
Restrictive GPLv2 license? | ❌ | ✅ |
Commercial, profit-driven organization? | ❌ | ✅ |
Themes | 500+ | 25 |
New project with many breaking changes leading to broken sites? | ❌ | ✅ |
Flexibility to design any kind of site? | ✅ | ❌ |
Fast website generation? | ✅ | ❌ |
Complex Installation/Dependencies | ❌ | ✅ |
Non-Standard, proprietary page format (.qmd )? | ❌ | ✅ |
Optimized SEO? | ✅ | ❌ |
Run R code within Markdown? | ❌ | ✅ |
Well established community for support? | ✅ | ❌ |
GitHub Stars | 70,000 | 2,000 |
GitHub Contributors | 776 | 99 |
GitHub Link | Hugo | Quarto |
Best for | Everyone: all-around performance, design, and SEO | Statisticians who need to run R code in their site rather than just display code snippets |
Are you an R Statistician? Did you know Hugo has an integration with RStudio, so you can directly write in RMarkdown or Jupyter Notebook, without having to install complex Haskell-based software such as Quarto?