I’m happy with hexo, but it never hurts to check out the competition. I recently ran across Prose:

Prose is an open source web-based authoring environment for CMS-free websites and designed for managing content on GitHub. …

Which re-aroused my interest in Jekyll and GitHub Pages. If Prose was able to deliver, then the combination of Prose, Jekyll, and GitHub pages was going to be tough to beat.

Unfortunately, Prose isn’t quite there yet. I had problems with the front-matter section. But it is almost there. It is definitely worth keeping an eye on.