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Programming HTML in Rust may have annoyed some gods.

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Web development is, and will always be, just a game of finding increasingly ~~cursed~~ unique ways to concatenate HTML strings

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One day I'll find a reason to use html!. One day.

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The problem is that what everybody really wants is parameterization, not concatenation. But most solutions therefor are flaky even if they exist.

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All programming was intended to take place within Rust

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I have seen frontends written in c#. Nothing surprises me anymore

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After experiencing struts everything else looks great in comparison

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This looks like how React components are written if you make the weird choice of not using the JSX syntax extension for React elements. I wonder if you could make a JSX-like DSL with Rust macros. JSX really helps for making this kind of stuff bearable.

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after a quick search ... https://github.com/bodil/typed-html also leptos uses something similar

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Wow. Looks like my browser renders imgur nonfunctional at this point. Weird.

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Genuine question: what's wrong with templating engines?