Assemble vs Pelican: What are the differences?

Assemble: The static site generator for Node.js, Grunt.js and Yeoman. Most popular site generator for Grunt.js and Yeoman. Assemble is used to build hundreds of web projects, ranging in size from a single page to 14,000 pages (that we're aware of!); Pelican: A static site generator, written in Python, that requires no database or server-side logic. Pelican is a static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!) in reStructuredText or Markdown.

Assemble and Pelican can be categorized as "Static Site Generators" tools.

Some of the features offered by Assemble are:

• Allows you to carve your HTML up into reusable fragments: partials, includes, sections, snippets... Whatever you prefer to call them, Assemble does that.
• Optionally use layouts to wrap your pages with commonly used elements and content.
• "Pages" can either be defined as HTML/templates, JSON or YAML, or directly inside the Gruntfile.

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

• Blog articles and pages
• Comments, via an external service (Disqus). (Please note that while useful, Disqus is an external service, and thus the comment data will be somewhat outside of your control and potentially subject to data loss.)
• Theming support (themes are created using Jinja2 templates)

Assemble and Pelican are both open source tools. Pelican with 8.89K GitHub stars and 1.58K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Assemble with 3.7K GitHub stars and 256 GitHub forks.