Haml is soo 2012. :) Try Jade (http://jade-lang.com/), it has a much cleaner syntax and integrated markdown support. You can even use it as a preprocessor for other templating languages.
Re:Web Development: A Crazy World
by throw_away_acc on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @12:41AM
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Totally agree plus Haml is slow like shit.
For example: In my case, I used to write a lot of plain HTML. I found it got annoying to type brackets and keep track of all the closing tags. So I tried ZenCoding, and it helped, but only on creation, not on editing. I finally settled on haml, because to me (not everyone), it solves the exact problem that I found troublesome and gave me the results that I like. No closing tags, cleaner markup. Others may disagree, but that doesn't matter - I like it for my purposes, and that's all it takes.
So to your point - learn the underlying tech, find your personal pain points, and use the tools that best solve them for you.