Toto might be a "WordPress Killer" <i>for hackers</i>, but that's just about it.<p>There are two reasons why WordPress is wildly successful...<p>(1) It's built in PHP so it can run on anything. Any webhost out there will run it, and 99% of them will have a "one-click-install" button for you.<p>(2) It has a pretty damn good admin interface and theme/plugin community. Anyone can install themes and plugins, either thru the interface or with some simple FTP knowledge.<p>All of this aside... I can't effing stand WordPress. I've been developing for it since it first branched off from the b2 blogging engine many moons ago. For a developer, building a complete site in WP generally consists of hacking plugins to work with one another, or writing your own modifications.<p>I built this site (<a href="http://arbesko.com" rel="nofollow">http://arbesko.com</a>) in WordPress because the client wanted it. Only about 10% of it is WP. I extended the URL rewriting system and wrote all of my own template code, most of the queries were written by hand. An experience WP dev might frown upon this because of "future incompatibility" but honestly, if you want to write good shit you're not gonna find it with WP's built in tools. The only thing left that isn't my own is pretty much the DB.<p>For a super simple blog, go with WP. For a "WP as a CMS site", don't fall for that bullshit. Write it in something else, anything else. Write it from scratch in Perl for all I care, just stay away from using WP for anything more than a blog and/or <i>very</i> simple site.<p>And again, these kinds of things (toto, jekyll, etc...) are fun for hackers, but they will never kill WP. If you want to kill WP you're going to need to attack it from the perspective of an "SEO Marketing social media expert from Tampa FL who has 2 kids and runs the Tampa Tweetup every weekend", and not that of a hacker. The most you can expect from someone is installing an FTP client and uploading it. These people don't play with terminals or git.