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by MBlume 1122 days ago
Clojure's great for this too, I've never seen a Clojure programmer generating HTML with string templates and that's not because Clojure programmers are more disciplined, it's because Clojure's syntax is flexible/simple enough to make generating HTML in a structured way the natural solution.

https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
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alex-robbins 1122 days ago
In the context of this article, it's worth pointing out that hiccup doesn't escape strings automatically. Rum does, and I've been using it as a drop-in replacement:

    user> (require '[rum.core :as rum]
                   '[hiccup.core :as hiccup])
    nil
    user> (rum/render-static-markup [:p "<script>alert('you have been pwned')</script>"])
    "<p>&lt;script&gt;alert(&#x27;you have been pwned&#x27;)&lt;/script&gt;</p>"
    user> (hiccup/html [:p "<script>alert('you have been pwned')</script>"])
    "<p><script>alert('you have been pwned')</script></p>"
(Note that Rum is also a React wrapper, but you don't have to use that part of it; you can simply use it for static rendering of HTML.)

https://github.com/tonsky/rum

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everforward 1122 days ago
I think it's more that the syntax is fairly similar to HTML already. HTML is basically deeply nested lists with some attributes attached to the nodes, and lisp code is deeply nested lists with keywords replacing attributes.

That is to say Clojure/lisp programmers are likely more familiar working with deeply nested lists of data.

You could write a very similar library in Python if you wanted using lists, I'm just doubtful anyone would use it because it's not "Pythonic".

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