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Personally, all I want is a full proper programming language in my templating. Every templating language ends up being irritatingly limited, for me at least.

dukeyukey 6y ago
Careful, you might end up with PHP.
mikepurvis 6y ago
I think that's the big divide in templating languages— whether or not you trust the template author. Zero trust is a template like Liquid which has some trivial scripting stuff, but nothing non-halting (written originally for Shopify, where storefront owners could completely customize their look & feel). And total trust is PHP. In the middle is the whole realm of somewhat-trusted, where the templates can embed varying degrees of executable script, but you are at pains to let users know that too much embedding is a bad practice, and that especially if they're "just a designer", they should work with someone from software team to implement a properly-encapsulated solution for whatever it is they want to do.
ibraheemdev 6y ago
JSX seems to fit that bill, and many other languages have a comparable library.
xfer 6y ago
racket scribble might be of interest to you. https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/ https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/
chrisweekly 6y ago
JSX (or even MDX) might fit the bill!
Yoofie 6y ago
I use PHP for exactly this reason. I wrote my own single .exe binary (written in C++) that generates JSON files from markdown files + others. The JSON files are then turned into static files via PHP using whatever template I care to create. I think people their life harder when they go out of their way to avoid using PHP when really it is suited towards these types of problems.
- mikepurvis 6y ago
  I mean, it used to literally stand for Personal Home Page, so it sounds like you're using it for its original purpose.
- wccrawford 6y ago
  It drives me nuts when people implement template languages on top of PHP. That was its purpose.
akvadrako 6y ago
Python has had mako for a long time, which does this.
lenkite 6y ago
Clojure hiccup: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

dukeyukey 6y ago

Careful, you might end up with PHP.

mikepurvis 6y ago

I think that's the big divide in templating languages— whether or not you trust the template author. Zero trust is a template like Liquid which has some trivial scripting stuff, but nothing non-halting (written originally for Shopify, where storefront owners could completely customize their look & feel). And total trust is PHP. In the middle is the whole realm of somewhat-trusted, where the templates can embed varying degrees of executable script, but you are at pains to let users know that too much embedding is a bad practice, and that especially if they're "just a designer", they should work with someone from software team to implement a properly-encapsulated solution for whatever it is they want to do.

ibraheemdev 6y ago

JSX seems to fit that bill, and many other languages have a comparable library.

xfer 6y ago

racket scribble might be of interest to you. https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/ https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/

chrisweekly 6y ago

JSX (or even MDX) might fit the bill!

Yoofie 6y ago

I use PHP for exactly this reason. I wrote my own single .exe binary (written in C++) that generates JSON files from markdown files + others. The JSON files are then turned into static files via PHP using whatever template I care to create. I think people their life harder when they go out of their way to avoid using PHP when really it is suited towards these types of problems.

mikepurvis 6y ago
I mean, it used to literally stand for Personal Home Page, so it sounds like you're using it for its original purpose.
wccrawford 6y ago
It drives me nuts when people implement template languages on top of PHP. That was its purpose.

akvadrako 6y ago

Python has had mako for a long time, which does this.

lenkite 6y ago

Clojure hiccup: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup