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HAML and coffeescript.

• aendruk 6y ago
  I miss the elegance of Haml. Moving from an indented syntax for DOM literals to the likes of JSX felt like a step backwards.
  • scrollaway 6y ago
    Maybe for you, but that is not a popular opinion. JSX's rigor is a breath of fresh air in a world that constantly generates low quality html due to loose constraints. HAML had those same problems. JSX is kind of xml done "right". Differences between children and attributes in xml is very hard to grasp, but JSX has a much better defined structure to it and is super well suited to generate html because of that.
    • aendruk 6y ago
      This sounds like an orthogonal point. (I agree with it, so it feels odd to see it presented as a rebuttal.) Surely an indented syntax could have rigor if we wanted it to?
      • scrollaway 6y ago
        Sure, if we wanted it to, but HAML wasn't that.
        • aendruk 6y ago
          Yes.