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Zen Coding seems like the Haml philosophy implemented as code completion rather than as a run time compiler. The upside is that the markup you generate is plai
by teaspoon 16y ago
Zen Coding seems like the Haml philosophy implemented as code completion rather than as a run time compiler. The upside is that the markup you generate is plain old HTML that any web framework can serve. The downside is that it has the readability of plain old HTML.
- steveklabnik 16y agoAnd that upside would go away, because you could just configure your deployment tool to do the 'rendering' upon deployment, generating HTML that could be served by any framework.
- psadauskas 16y agoFor me, its never been the initial coding of HTML that was the problem; there's always been plenty of text-editor solutions like auto-close and find-matching tags. Instead, the PITA of HTML is refactoring it and moving bits around, which is what Haml alleviates, but this does not.
- zefhous 16y agoAlso, the point of HAML isn't just to make writing code faster, but to make it more maintainable as well. You lose that with Zen Coding.