Middleman vs. Pelican vs. Hexo

Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment.

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.

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.