[spacesuitman2]

>I don't have any particular answers to why string templating has been enduringly popular so far (although I can come up with theories, including that string templating is naturally reusable to other contexts, such as plain text).

This sounds similar to the concept of narrow waists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30483914

[ummonk]

Clicked on that expecting it to be an article about how corsets remained popular with women in the Victorian and Edwardian eras even as doctors kept recommending against them.