Hexo vs showterm: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is showterm? Record a terminal session exactly as you experience it, right down to the syntax highlighting. Termshows are purely text based. This makes them ideal for demoing instructions (as the user can copy-paste), making fail-safe "live-coding" sessions (plain text is very scalable), and sharing all your l33t terminal hacks.

Hexo belongs to "Static Site Generators" category of the tech stack, while showterm can be primarily classified under "Terminal Recording".

Some of the features offered by Hexo are:

• 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.

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

• Copy-paste
• Plain text
• Display in realtime, double-speed, and stop

Hexo and showterm are both open source tools. It seems that Hexo with 27.1K GitHub stars and 3.6K forks on GitHub has more adoption than showterm with 556 GitHub stars and 42 GitHub forks.