[lightblade]

Well, I know Vue and Ember are no longer using string based template. Most front end nowadays are DOM based templates.

[boubiyeah]

Even angular 2 uses some sort of virtual dom under the hood. My point remains though, as all the developer manipulates are strings. I think manipulating objects (virtual dom nodes) is a more powerful and versatile way to do it.

[Touche]

Handlebars is not valid HTML, so I find it hard to believe it is DOM based. I believe the new version of Glimmer compiles its strings to bytecode.