# Is the Jekyll project dead? **URL:** https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/is-the-jekyll-project-dead/6820 **Category:** Help **Created:** [December 21, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/is-the-jekyll-project-dead/6820 "2021-12-21T16:52:34Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![jhvanderschee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/jhvanderschee/32/583_2.png) [@jhvanderschee](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/jhvanderschee) #### Post date: [December 27, 2021, 10:55am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/is-the-jekyll-project-dead/6820/7 "2021-12-27T10:55:42Z")
I have two reasons to choose for Hugo: - build speed at very large websites (a factor 10) - the option to process images (scale, crop, etc) To me the first one is very important. I created a Hugo specific CMS that can deploy a website in under a second (including the build process). The second one is also very important, as I advertise my websites to be instantly loading. That requires a PERFECT optimization of images. Hugo is able to provide that without (expensive) third party tools. However, there are a lot of reasons NOT to choose for Hugo: - the complexity of Hugo - Hugo’s strange scope (filepaths are not considered properly, while AMP pages are) - Go templating (hard to read and write) - the need for a build process (Github Pages builds Jekyll natively) - the fact that Hugo is on 0.something, which allows for breaking changes - the developer community being smaller People who use Jekyll generally build faster websites: > **[Jamstack means performance, right? | Usecue web development](https://www.usecue.com/blog/jamstack-means-performance-right/)** > > “Jamstack has revolutionized the way we think about building for the web by providing a simpler developer experience, better performance, lower cost and greater scalability”, acccording to Jamstack.wtf. > Most of us already know these claims. However,... Jekyll is awesome! --- _[View the full topic](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/is-the-jekyll-project-dead/6820)._