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Re: Flat HTML

#31

Post by animalnewbie » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 5:54 AM UTC

Re plugging scala-tags. Type checked html where you can close and hence match brackets.

Re: Flat HTML

#32

Post by zuckluni » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 5:58 AM UTC

torgoguys wrote: post #2

What has the world come to if this mess is considered easier than writing some nested html tags? (Perhaps I'm not plugged into the SPA scene well enough to appreciate this project. I hope it is useful to some.) In fact, reading the examples made me check to see if the first commit to this project was today, April Fools...

Replugging bepis, another way to write 'flat' HTML using operators with a slightly different operator set: https://github.com/dosyago/bepis

For me I just wanted to stop writing all the extra syntax (like ` =` and closing tags) and use symbols my fingers were already reaching for. Just about conciseness, efficiency and enjoyment.

I really like the operator choice in this project!

Re: Flat HTML

#33

Post by keyle » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 6:00 AM UTC

Bahah that was fun. Also someone should totally make a brainfuck html generator.

All tags could be in alphabetical order and you cycle through them in brainfuck. Pop in class names and id's and you're onto a winner!

Re: Flat HTML

#34

Post by greencore » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 6:01 AM UTC

I think author haven't seen Slim or Pug templating languages

Re: Flat HTML

#35

Post by cookingoils » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 6:13 AM UTC

you could also just write html

https://html.energy

Re: Flat HTML

#36

Post by tpae » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 6:15 AM UTC

https://github.com/pugjs/pug

Re: Flat HTML

#37

Post by xwdv » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 6:15 AM UTC

I would like to see this joke continue until it is indistinguishable from satire.

Re: Flat HTML

#38

Post by axegon_ » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 6:31 AM UTC

What's with everyone's obsession with treating html like assembly: "Only people with long white hair and beards, magic wands and capes know html... Like... Like Gandalf, bruh!"

General question, it's been my main criticism towards all the modern js "frameworks" like react, vue and whatnot. Seriously, what gives?

Re: Flat HTML

#39

Post by laumars » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 6:34 AM UTC

m463 wrote: post #22

Stratoscope wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is amazing! I hope you can share the toolchain that lets you convert from one to the other so seamlessly?

I will as soon as the indentation technology has been worked out, and the API stabilized and a documentation framework has been completed, targeting 4/1/21.

4th of Jan?

;)

Re: Flat HTML

#40

Post by panic » Thu, Apr 02, 2020, 6:51 AM UTC

torgoguys wrote: post #2

What has the world come to if this mess is considered easier than writing some nested html tags? (Perhaps I'm not plugged into the SPA scene well enough to appreciate this project. I hope it is useful to some.) In fact, reading the examples made me check to see if the first commit to this project was today, April Fools...

One advantage is security. The text after the equals sign in each string can't be misinterpreted as HTML syntax, so it's safe to build flat HTML using string concatenation.