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I've been using Go's html/template for the last couple of months and all I can say is that it's still very much a toy. It's fine for basic loops and conditional

I've been using Go's html/template for the last couple of months and all I can say is that it's still very much a toy. It's fine for basic loops and conditionals but anything beyond that is extremely limited and having proper reusable components is a constant fight against limitations, specifically because of the lack of being able to pass multiple arguments to a template. I wish the Go team had gone with something more akin to PugJS[1], which in contrast is very rich in features, flexible and dare I say fun to build components and pages with. [1] https://pugjs.org/api/getting-started.html https://pugjs.org/api/getting-started.html

mbivert 2y ago
> because of the lack of being able to pass multiple arguments to a template I'm not sure if this I understand the issue correctly, but one can pass multiple arguments, by wrapping them e.g. into a hash (https://go.dev/play/p/89gP42K8XRb https://go.dev/play/p/89gP42K8XRb): package main import ( "log" "os" "text/template" ) func main() { err := template.Must( template.New("").Parse("{{ .greeting }}, {{ .user.name }}!"), ).Execute(os.Stdout, map[string]any{ "user": map[string]any{ "name": "earthling", }, "greeting": "hello", }) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } } In my experience, the module is far from a toy, but it's not always obvious how to use it properly, at first.