I’ve made the switch from Hugo to Zola mostly because I had come to dread making substantial changes to this site. Go’s template language is too weird and the way I implemented Tailwind is too fragile. Zola and plain old CSS have cleared all that up.
Zola is a Static Site Generator very similar to Hugo. In fact, its author, Vincent Prouillet, created Zola partially because he hated the Go Template language but liked Hugo. Since I’m in the same boat, I had to give Zola a try and I’m generally pretty happy with it.
Although many prefer using PhotoLab as the central hub of their photography workflow, using separate applications for DAM and printing, I’m looking for an all-in-one solution with tight integration and a uniform interface. PhotoLab 9 seems (after a several days with the trial) to have hit the sweet spot in capabilities for my needs.
If you’re looking for a SSG (Static Site Generator) to create a website, it pretty much comes down to Hugo or 11ty (Eleventy). The rest of the SSGs are either too old, poorly supported, or meant for creating web apps. I’ve tried quite a few of them, I found that I kept coming back to Hugo and 11ty.