+++ title = "About Hugo" date = "2014-04-09" displayInMenu = true displayInList = false dropCap = false +++ Hugo is the **world’s fastest framework for building websites**. It is written in Go. It makes use of a variety of open source projects including: * https://github.com/russross/blackfriday * https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma * https://github.com/muesli/smartcrop * https://github.com/spf13/cobra * https://github.com/spf13/viper Learn more and contribute on [GitHub](https://github.com/gohugoio).