[lloeki]

> I really wanted the templates to just be nix functions

This feels like Ruby template engines like haml† and slim†† a lot, or the various xml builders††† too

† https://github.com/haml/haml

†† https://slim-template.github.io

††† https://nokogiri.org/rdoc/Nokogiri/XML/Builder.html#class-No...

[mikepurvis]

Groovy does something similar with MarkupTemplateEngine; I don't super care for it there either, at least as a mechanism for generating full webpages:

https://docs.groovy-lang.org/docs/groovy-2.5.3/html/document...

It can make a lot more sense as a way to prepare a smaller snippet of XML though, for example an xunit reponse.