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HAML vs Red: What are the differences?
Developers describe HAML as "HTML Abstraction Markup Language - A Markup Haiku". Haml is a markup language that’s used to cleanly and simply describe the HTML of any web document, without the use of inline code. Haml functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ERB, and ASP. However, Haml avoids the need for explicitly coding HTML into the template, because it is actually an abstract description of the HTML, with some code to generate dynamic content. On the other hand, Red is detailed as "Full-Stack programming language inspired by REBOL". It is both an imperative and functional programming language. Its syntax and general usage overlaps that of the interpreted Rebol language.
HAML and Red can be categorized as "Languages" tools.
HAML is an open source tool with 3.45K GitHub stars and 549 GitHub forks. Here's a link to HAML's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of HAML
- Clean and simple68
- No html open/close tags49
- Easier to write than ERB39
- Forces clean and readable code36
- Simpler markup language34
- Open Source24
- HTML Templating16
- You'll love it if you like Haikus1
Pros of Red
- I use Red because of his human oriented design6
- I use Red because I'm so used to Rebol ultra-efficiency2
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Cons of HAML
- It's not Pug3