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> templating languages are horrible and stuck in 2005. An underrated pro of react [1] + typescript is that you get to write your UI logic in regular typescript,
Yeah exactly, which is why I always recommend DSLs that embed HTML directly in the language. E.g. https://com-lihaoyi.github.io/scalatags/ or (my own) https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html
They make writing HTML a breeze with the full power of the programming language available.
> We were doing this the same year that React came out, and clearly had some of the same thoughts as Dan Abramov did
Dan Abramov is not the original creator of React. That was Jordan Walke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW0rj4sNH2w
> templating languages are horrible and stuck in 2005. An underrated pro of react [1] + typescript is that you get to write your UI logic in regular typescript,
Yeah exactly, which is why I always recommend DSLs that embed HTML directly in the language. E.g. https://com-lihaoyi.github.io/scalatags/ or (my own) https://github.com/yawaramin/dream-html
They make writing HTML a breeze with the full power of the programming language available.
> We were doing this the same year that React came out, and clearly had some of the same thoughts as Dan Abramov did
Dan Abramov is not the original creator of React. That was Jordan Walke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW0rj4sNH2w
I've run into this same issue when developing a DSL for generating language bindings and doing data serialization. Not having compile-time type safety is such a pain.
So I'm extending the language to feature statically typed string templates as well. It currently targets (generates) C++, but I'll add other language targets in the future.
It's still a work in progress but I just flipped the repository public in case you want to follow along as I work: https://github.com/dpemmons/typedef