Deciding on site engine?

Creating site with Markdown

Render static blog sites from Markdown using Ghost themes: mixu/ghost-render

Great list of Flat File CMS Systems found here.

Hugo is written in Go and that should not be a problem. Has a quite a few of themes. More popular than Grav (6000 stars). Search is wiers, as this is real static-site generator.
Kirby is PHP but has the same problem as Grav as a folder is needed for every page. And it is not free.
HTMLy has a real lack of documentation.
Herbie is close to perfect, the only problem is German language. It has its own search functionality, but it’s file naming is very strict.
Pico is great (2000 stars) as is newer fork Phile which has the most flexible front-matter that I prefer. Both of them have little good showcase sites, and totaly lack search functionality.
Baun is successor to Pico from the same author, and is perfect in every sence, but only 200 stars. Admin panel is not free. Baun: A New Kind of PHP CMS - Gilbert Pellegrom
Sphido is simple and also has a logical metadata format.
Daux.io with 4000 stars. I don’t like that we must use underscores instead of spaces in filenames. They call themselves a documentation generator.

Others that I looked at are or too weird or too outdated.

Edit in place

Don’t look no more: mdwiki is perfect.

Also,

Not perfect for me:

title: This is the real title
author: John Doe <john.doe@datalove.com>
date: 2014-06-25
keywords: mdwiki, wiki, markdown

Interesting alternative to Grav?

date 01. Jan 0001 | modified 10. Jun 2024

filename: Flat-file CMS - Selection