I think you're correct about its intended use case being different. I used Twitter's Mustache compiler, Hogan.js, in a similar fashion for a tiny app once. Tho

I think you're correct about its intended use case being different. I used Twitter's Mustache compiler, Hogan.js, in a similar fashion for a tiny app once. Though I suppose I should highlight the latter being client-side templating, as opposed to one-way data binding.