Comment by tdumitrescu

I've used brunch for a few years now and found it to be quite performant for my personal projects. Once it's set up it just works smoothly. Getting it set up though with the various plugins you need for your own build process can be a bit of a headache sometimes, and I've felt hedged in at certain points by its largely declarative config. I do think the benefits of its building and caching system are worth it for the standard frontend workflow needs and wish it had more mindshare/general community love.