> Could you expand on that? It sounds like an interesting position (bordering on the philosophical) I'll make the philosophical case: text-level templating of

> Could you expand on that? It sounds like an interesting position (bordering on the philosophical) I'll make the philosophical case: text-level templating of a computer-readable format is almost always the wrong approach. It becomes unnecessarily hard for someone who later needs to read the code to ensure that it generates valid (both syntax and semantics) markup. It's also more hard for tooling to verify the validity, because the syntactic validity may depend on inputs to the program. Compare the approaches of PHP and JSX. They both accomplish a similar goal (interleaved HTML and control flow), but JSX works at the element tree level and makes it impossible to generate poorly-formed HTML syntax -- it becomes a compile-time error (though it doesn't ensure semantics, e.g. a tbody outside of a table is legal). Compare with PHP, which very much allows you to generate invalid HTML, because it's just a text templating language. (From what I can tell, Helm works more like PHP; if I'm wrong my philosophical position stands but might not apply here)