Web development is, and will always be, just a game of finding increasingly ~~cursed~~ unique ways to concatenate HTML strings
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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The problem is that what everybody really wants is parameterization, not concatenation. But most solutions therefor are flaky even if they exist.
All programming was intended to take place within Rust
I have seen frontends written in c#. Nothing surprises me anymore
After experiencing struts everything else looks great in comparison
Wow. Looks like my browser renders imgur nonfunctional at this point. Weird.
This looks like how React components are written if you make the weird choice of not using the JSX syntax extension for React elements. I wonder if you could make a JSX-like DSL with Rust macros. JSX really helps for making this kind of stuff bearable.
Genuine question: what's wrong with templating engines?