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by jsavimbi 5248 days ago
Stylus is for CSS, not HTML.
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secoif 5247 days ago
Oh wow, I remember looking at my post thinking: "something's wrong here, oh well." I actually meant Jade:

http://jade-lang.com/.

Jade makes HAML look like a dogs breakfast.

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jsavimbi 5247 days ago
You sir, are correct in that. Slim also merits a looking at, but I write everything [static] in Jade first and then transfer the output to whatever, yeah, JSP's. There's a significant performance hit from using non-HTML at run time, +40% in some cases, as was Haml back a couple of years ago. Probably a good reason why RoR adopted Sass yet shied away from Haml.
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gregwebs 5236 days ago
The Ruby slim templates get compiled to an intermediate language (Temple). That is then compiled into an end form and everything is cached - the performance is all the same.

RoR didn't pick Haml because Haml abandons HTML. Take a look at the Hamlet language which give the best of both worlds. https://github.com/gregwebs/hamlet.js https://github.com/gregwebs/hamlet.rb

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