Walrus.js - Mustache on steroids

Re:Walrus.js - Mustache on steroids by GertG on Thursday June 28, 2012 @03:50AM (#4170691)

I appreciate that you can't go far into technical details in an HN comment, but after a statement like that, you could at least give a pointer to those "good reasons". They might not be as obvious to everyone as you assume.

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Re:Walrus.js - Mustache on steroids by Xylakant on Thursday June 28, 2012 @04:28AM (#4170778)

Since I can't peek into the OPs head, I'll have to speculate but here's my take:

The power of Mustache (and Handlebars) was that it forced you to write logic-less templates. There's just no way to express logic other than checks for existence of values. That means that you have a minimal language that every non-programmer [1] can understand. You can change templates without diving into a language. Walrus changes that to be a pretty much full featured template language with full view logic (hey, look, there's MATH methods in there). It perverts the idea of Mustache.

[1] aka designer or template-guru :)

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Re:Walrus.js - Mustache on steroids by spullara on Friday June 29, 2012 @12:41AM (#4175287)

Thanks, you read my mind.

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