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It looks like everything is moving to a lisp-like structure. brackets... brackets everywhere.

• rcoder 4y ago
  Declarative syntax to express {HT|X|...}ML/DOM-like structures in your source code are a big win if that's a significant percentage of the boilerplate code you have to write. E.g.: Literal HTML ``` <div class="active">Hello!</div> ``` Procedural JS ``` let elt = document.createElement('div'); elt.setAttribute("class", "active"); elt.innerText = "Hello!"; ``` Rust literals + HTML macro ``` html! { div(class: "active") { "Hello!" } } ``` Modern Lisp (Clojure, Fennel, et. al.) ``` [:div {:class "active"} "Hello!"] ``` Dunno about you, but when I'm comparing my template source code to the materialized DOM in my browser dev tools, the latter is a _lot_ simpler for me to reason about.
  • genezeta 4y ago
    Just so you know in case you don't, if you remove the ```backticks``` and just indent the line by 4 spaces it will be presented in a monospace font, like... <div class="active">Hello!</div> Ah, you can also get italics using asterisks instead of _underscores_.
    • amelius 4y ago
      How do you get a literal asterisk?
      • steveklabnik 4y ago
        Either \* or **
        • amelius 4y ago
          Testing, *, * Edit: it works
          • mkl 4y ago
            The documentation is https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc, found via the FAQ link at the bottom of the page.
    • steveklabnik 4y ago
      You only need two spaces, not four.
      • genezeta 4y ago
        Ah, yes. You're right, it's 2 :)