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Programming HTML in Rust may have annoyed some gods. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/programming_horror

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[–] Hexarei 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Web development is, and will always be, just a game of finding increasingly ~~cursed~~ unique ways to concatenate HTML strings

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

One day I'll find a reason to use html!. One day.

[–] o11c 2 points 1 year ago

The problem is that what everybody really wants is parameterization, not concatenation. But most solutions therefor are flaky even if they exist.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

All programming was intended to take place within Rust

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have seen frontends written in c#. Nothing surprises me anymore

[–] etler 2 points 1 year ago

After experiencing struts everything else looks great in comparison

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wow. Looks like my browser renders imgur nonfunctional at this point. Weird.

[–] Macil 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] autokludge 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

after a quick search ... https://github.com/bodil/typed-html also leptos uses something similar

[–] hairyballs 2 points 1 year ago

Genuine question: what's wrong with templating engines?