Why not use Hugo's org parser?

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+## Why not use Hugo's internal Org parser? {#why-not-use-hugo-s-internal-org-parser}
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+It's true that Hugo has an internal Org parser that is well maintained. It
+provides this as an alternative to markdown files. You may wonder, then, why
+someone would use Org mode to export to markdown instead of just letting Hugo
+parse the Org files itself. The answer is two-fold:
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+1.  Hugo's Org format is currently less feature complete than markdown, so
+    exporting from Org mode to the Hugo Org Format would limit potential output.
+2.  Org mode is a lot more than just a file format, and its integration with your
+    system allows all kinds of benefits you can never get out of a simple Org
+    file parser.
+
+Therefore, supporting the Org format in another tool will give you a superior
+text format for organizing information, but it will be crippled when compared to
+an actual Org mode implementation. Ox-hugo gives you the ability to use Org mode
+itself to generate content.
+
+If Hugo's Org parser gains parity with, or eclipses, the Blackfriday Markdown
+format currently used by Hugo, ox-hugo could certainly be used to output those
+Org-Hugo files instead of the current markdown. This would be nice because it
+would allow Org mode users to view their output content more easily, but the
+advantages of ox-hugo and a real, bona fide Org mode would still remain.
+
+So you see, Hugo's Org parser isn't really in competition with ox-hugo, it's in
+competition with the _other_ Hugo formats (e.g. markdown).
+
+
 # Thanks {#thanks}
 
 Thanks to Kaushal Modi, who found this article on the googs within days of me