New Diet template engine almost complete, ready for comments

[Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Am 28.07.2016 um 15:26 schrieb Chris:
> On Monday, 25 July 2016 at 09:29:38 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>> The Diet template language is aimed at providing a way to define
>> procedurally generated HTML/XML pages (or other output formats), with
>> minimal visual noise. Syntax and feature set are heavily inspired by
>> Jade <http://jade-lang.org/>, but instead of JavaScript, all
>> expressions and statements are D statements, and everything that can
>> be done at compile-time is done at compile-time.
>>
>> Vibe.d still contains the original implementation, which was written
>> around the limitations of DMD's CTFE engine back years ago, and is
>> basically a monolithic parser+generator with little flexibility and a
>> number of convenience features missing, because of their
>> implementation complexity. The new implementation has been rewritten
>> cleanly, with separate parser, modifier and generator modules, working
>> on a common DOM tree intermediate representation.
>>
>> The major new features/improvements are:
>>
>>   - No external dependencies other than Phobos
>>   - Supports inline and nested tags syntax
>>   - Supports string interpolations within filter nodes (falls back to
>>     runtime filters)
>>   - Supports AngularJS special attribute names
>>   - Extensible/configurable with traits structures
>>   - Uses less memory during compilation (this one was a real surprise)
>>   - (Unit) tested from the start
>>   - Supports arbitrary uses other than generating HTML, for example we
>>    use it similar to QML/XAML for our internal UI framework
>>
>> The API documentation can be shown ba running DUB:
>>    dub fetch diet-ng --version=1.0.0-alpha.2
>>    dub run diet-ng -b ddox
>>
>> You can try the library directly, or together with the latest alpha
>> release of vibe.d (0.7.30-alpha.3). Simply add a dependency to
>> "diet-ng", version "~>1.0.0-alpha.2". Vibe.d will automatically
>> re-route render!(...) calls to diet-ng.
>>
>> A small example with just the most essential features is shown in the
>> README:
>> https://code.dlang.org/packages/diet-ng
>>
>> More complex real-world examples:
>> https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibed.org/tree/master/views
>> https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/ddox/tree/master/views
>>
>> Any comments/requests regarding the feature set or API are highly
>> welcome!
>
> Great stuff! Very much appreciated. Btw, the link to jade-lang.org
> (don't click!) leads to a dodgy business homepage atm. The right address is
>
> http://jade-lang.com/

Oh, dang! Thanks for mentioning this. Fortunately I copy/pasted the 
right link to the README.