Jekyll -
the blog aware, static site generator- by
mojombo is in process of changes and is seeing lot of activity on github.com, -social coding-
What is Jekyll?
Jekyll is a static site generator which takes simple web site template structure and and gives out baked html pages, the input can be
markdown,
textile or
liquid
more here: http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki
Recently WordPress version
3.5 was released, more
here on trac timeline.
Main difference between two blogging engines is wp is dynamic and jekyll is fully static engine, although there is always a pull towards caching and serving static files in wordpress using
WP Super Cache, Total Cache, batcache and
more.
Thanks to the contributors of both php and ruby communities, we have two leading blogging engines in wp and jekyll, both have good foundations and followers. To me both are rivals of sorts, with jekyll taking more in personal albeit tech sites and wordpress, more in commercial sites. both have good bases built around them, with jekyll having github pages and wordpress having wordpress.com.
Thanks to ruby and php communities!