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I've built a lua-based markdown which is more sane (from a programmer's PoV) than markdown but still concise
https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/cxt
I'm planning on supporting syntax highlighting. I could imagine creating a cxx that does what LuaX is doing, except it would support rendering to the command line as well as html.
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Cool project and if it works for you and you're happy, that's all what counts.
When I read the article, I was thinking that Go templates were used wrong. I was thinking there must be a way to define the template so you inject the content and don't need to define the start and the end of the html, but instead yield a block of other html as some kind of argument. I was trying to look it up, but couldn't find documentation on this. Maybe the author is right and I'm wrong.
And I was wondering why the author isn't using something like Templ [0], which is kind of JSX with Go as hosting language. Probably because it needs the preprocessor / compile step?
[0] https://github.com/a-h/templ
It is actually open-source already if you know where to look, but heads up that it’s not documented for public use (and as mentioned, I cut some corners on the parser). https://github.com/bvisness/bvisness.me/blob/main/bhp/transp...
They also made XHP-JS, though it seems inactive.
https://engineering.fb.com/2015/07/09/open-source/announcing...
https://github.com/hhvm/xhp-js
JSX is useful not just for advanced string interpolation but for representing/generation of tree alike structures / literals in PL. JSX is not only about HTML but XML too.
I don't know how JSX is made in LuaX but in my QuickJS fork [1] JSX allows to generate as tree literals as procedure calls (JSX(tag,props,kids)) that can be used for various purposes - DOM population, VDOM generation, HTML/XML string composition, etc.
And being embedded into a compiler JSX a) prevents common mistakes like non-closed tags and b) effective internalization ( translation happens at compile time once ).
[1] JSX implementation for QuickJS : https://gitlab.com/c-smile/quickjspp/-/blob/master/quickjs-j...
It would have been nice if LuaX was written in Lua.
Forking Pallene (https://github.com/pallene-lang/pallene) would introduce:
I think this is a solid choice if you want both template engine and plugin system. I wish someday https://soupault.app adopt this.