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Askama vs Slim Lang: What are the differences?
Askama: Type-safe, compiled Jinja-like templates for Rust. It implements a template rendering engine based on Jinja. It generates Rust code from your templates at compile time based on a user-defined struct to hold the template's context; Slim Lang: Template language whose goal is reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic. Slim is a template language whose goal is to reduce the view syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic. It started as an exercise to see how much could be removed from a standard html template (<, >, closing tags, etc...). As more people took an interest in Slim, the functionality grew and so did the flexibility of the syntax.
Askama and Slim Lang belong to "Templating Languages & Extensions" category of the tech stack.
Slim Lang is an open source tool with 4.98K GitHub stars and 493 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Slim Lang's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Askama
Pros of Slim Lang
- Easier to type and maintain than haml13
- Very clean and logical12
- Integrates with Rails by installing a single gem9
- Performs better than haml8
- Concise4
- Extensive package support in sublime text 2 and 33
- Atom package support1
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Cons of Askama
Cons of Slim Lang
- Not so good editor support2
- Overcomplicated syntax1
- Lots of syntactic corner cases1
- Easy to break nesting when reindenting or copy-pasting1
