I have a blog with hundreds of posts. Jekyll would take multiple seconds to process any change (maybe even minutes for the initial build, cannot remember), so iterating over the final touches of a post was really painful.
Hugo builds my whole site in less than 10 seconds and reloads individual post changes in milliseconds. It’s a game changer while previewing edits.
Yeah, but... surely, when you were iterating on a post, you were running Jekyll with --limit_posts or doing an incremental build?
I agree, it's a nuisance that a full build can take a while (my own site, which has almost 600 posts plus a bunch of other random pages, takes at least 30 seconds for a full build, if memory serves), but it's hardly a dealbreaker.
Jekyll doesn't enforce or validate links between posts. I know this because I build my site with --limit_posts all the time (it's literally part of my build pipeline due to the way I handle webmentions).
Is there some plugin you were using that was blowing up?
Hugo builds my whole site in less than 10 seconds and reloads individual post changes in milliseconds. It’s a game changer while previewing edits.