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by deanc 1139 days ago
Templating languages are abstractions on top of other technologies. I don't see how PHP is a templating language. I could write that exact same code above in NodeJS and I'd need to use mustache to escape the output. So you can make the same mistakes in Node, Python.

Nobody writes PHP mixing HTML and PHP anymore, and if you do you should run. Shit code is not unique to PHP and I've seen more than my life's share in JS and Python codebases.
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ptx 1138 days ago
> I don't see how PHP is a templating language [...] Nobody writes PHP mixing HTML and PHP anymore

PHP is designed to be a template language, but it's a terrible template language, so nobody (it is claimed) uses it as it was originally designed to be used anymore.

So "use PHP" is not good advice if what you mean is "use a web framework and a separate third-party template language", which works just as well in any language and doesn't give PHP any particular advantage.

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frou_dh 1138 days ago
Tangential, but I've always found Mustache's tagline "logic-less templates" confusing - what they mean is that the template language doesn't have control flow. Logic is not a synonym of control flow in my mind.
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