11ty vs Hexo: What are the differences?

11ty: A simpler static site generator. A simpler static site generator. An alternative to Jekyll. Written in JavaScript. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML Works with HTML, Markdown, Liquid, Nunjucks, Handlebars, Mustache, EJS, Haml, Pug, and JavaScript Template Literals.; Hexo: A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js. Hexo is a fast, simple and powerful blog framework. It parses your posts with Markdown or other render engine and generates static files with the beautiful theme. All of these just take seconds.

11ty and Hexo can be primarily classified as "Static Site Generators" tools.

Some of the features offered by 11ty are:

• uses independent template engines
• works with your project’s existing directory structure
• works with multiple template languages

On the other hand, Hexo provides the following key features:

• Blazing Fast - Node.js brings you incredible generating speed. Hundreds of files take only seconds to build.
• Markdown Support - All features of GitHub Flavored Markdown are supported. You can even use most Octopress plugins in Hexo.
• One-Command Deployment - You only need one command to deploy your site to GitHub Pages, Heroku or other sites.

Hexo is an open source tool with 27.1K GitHub stars and 3.6K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hexo's open source repository on GitHub.