I use Pelican for my blog because it meets all my requirements: markdown, latex support, jupyter notebook support, syntax highlighting, and integration with GitLab. I tried another blog engines, like Jekyll and Hugo. However, since I do not use Ruby and Go daily, I did not use those engines.

Some things I would like to see in Pelican are:

- Better documentation in the code. The documentation for the final user is great. However, if you inspect the code, it will take some time to understand it since many functions are not documented. Compared to other code bases, like Keras, the docstrings can help the developer.

- More themes. The default theme is not my favorite. Also, I think Jekyll and Hugo have better themes.

(It is not a critic. I love Pelican)