Static Site Generators

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This is an updated fork of the gist located here: https://gist.github.com/2254924

Backstory: I decided to crowdsource static site generator recommendations, so the following are actual real world suggested-to-me results. I then took those and sorted them by language/server and, just for a decent relative metric, their Github Watcher count. If you want a heap of other projects (including other languages like Haskell and Python) Nanoc has the mother of all site generator lists. If you recommend another one, by all means add a comment.

Ruby

• Jekyll 8,221
• Octopress 4,512
• Middleman 1,261
• toto 1,221
• NestaCMS 745
• Statis 613
• Nanoc 486
• Frank 364
• Ruhoh 267
• StaticMatic 247
• webgen 42

Node.JS

• DocPad 839
• hexo 797
• Punch 519
• Wintersmith 310
• Blacksmith 232
• Romulus 106
• Quill 35

PHP

• Second Crack 692
• Stacey 624
• Kirby 323 💰
• PieCrust 73
• Sculpin 64

eZ Publish

You can add Sculpin to the list.

• Sculpin

And hexo (Node.js)

@dougplant, eZ Publish doesn't seem to generate static sites but I might be wrong...

@simensen & @reggi, I've now added the generators to the list :)