# Nicolino v0.5.0

**URL:** <https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/nicolino-v0-5-0/8653>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** announces\
**Created:** [January 13, 2026, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/nicolino-v0-5-0/8653 "2026-01-13T23:57:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ralsina](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/ralsina/32/2139_2.png) [@ralsina](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/ralsina)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2026, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/nicolino-v0-5-0/8653/1 "2026-01-13T23:57:36Z")

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My [static site generator](https://nicolino.ralsina.me) is getting there. Maybe not for general use yet but:

- Fast-ish (within 20% of Hugo in a nice day)
- Full-featured [markdown](https://github.com/ralsina/cr-discount)
- pandoc for random other formats
- Image [galleries](https://nicolino.ralsina.me/galleries/)
- Shows [code nicely](https://nicolino.ralsina.me/listings/)
- Of course [blog](https://nicolino.ralsina.me/posts/)
- [shortcodes](https://github.com/ralsina/shortcodes) mostly hugo-compatible
- Incremental and parallel builds via [croupier](https://github.com/ralsina/croupier)
- And RSS, and a link checker, and a live server, and tons more

Like I said: not for general use yet, but I am planning on porting my 26 years of web presence to it in the next week or two, which is letting me find most nuisances

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**Author:** ![ralsina](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.crystal-lang.org/ralsina/32/2139_2.png) [@ralsina](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/ralsina)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2026, 11:48pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/nicolino-v0-5-0/8653/2 "2026-01-14T23:48:12Z")

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Because of an algorithmic optimization in croupier, now nicolino is about 20% faster than Hugo in a totally non-representative synthetic benchmark :-)