[alecbenzer]

While I agree that it does seem slightly more appropriate to use something like haml that's specifically designed for this purpose, I kind of like this because it removes the somewhat annoying need to learn a new language (assuming you already know coffescript).

I haven't looked at this too much, but I also find that templating languages often try to implement some elements of higher level programming languages, but often end up not having some of the features I want (I'm thinking specifically about liquid right now and it's apparent inability to let the designer declare arrays on their own, and its sort of awkward "filter" mechanism instead of just sticking to function calls, syntactically)

edit: well, actually, nevermind - now that I think about it liquid and haml/erb/etc are different things - liquid is trying to be a programming language and haml/erb are templating markups used with existing programming languages. I guess what I like about this is that it's just one consistent language - the markup parts and the dynamic parts are done via the same thing, as opposed to having a programming language embedded in a markup language