+++
title = "About Hugo"
date = "2014-04-09"
+++

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).