template engines are really cool

@noiob oh, yeah! are there any in particular you like..?

@thingywott I haven't used a lot of them and they all seem to use the same syntax, which is part of why they're cool

I've used Tera as a part of Zola and now twig, in php (without symfony)

@noiob oh yeah, they do seem to largely have similar ideas!

it's hard to say which i prefer the most. maybe liquid? (that's the thing jekyll uses, and you can pipe output between functions)

{{ user.name | capitalize | prepend: "Hello " }}

most of the stuff i've used recently is jsp with jstl, though jstl just tries to replace the code parts of the templates into tags that are interpreted serverside

<c:forEach var="thing" items="${bean.things}">
  ${thing.field}
</c:forEach>

@thingywott I didn't do anything too complex, I just love how readable and nice it makes the templates as opposed to piecing together the html manually in php

@noiob oh yeah, manually building html without templating is a nightmare and a half =w=