Should I use Hugo or Quarto to make my personal website in 2025?
A comparison between Hugo (the application which generates HugoBlox 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?
