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by giovannibonetti 8 days ago
> but seeing how Lustre does HTML templating versus how Phoenix does Heex was my deciding factor to try the latter. My understanding is this is because of a current lack of any macro system.

When I worked with Ruby on Rails I was "addicted" to macros for everything, but after working for a while with statically-typed languages like Elm and Gleam, I see that there are many other ways to solve those same problems. The code can be quite repetitive sometimes, but as long as the compiler ensures everything is in place, it works quite well.