Jsonnet vs Slim Lang

Overview

Slim Lang

Stacks65

Followers57

Votes50

GitHub Stars5.4K

Forks499

Jsonnet

Stacks207

Followers37

Votes2

GitHub Stars7.4K

Forks468

Slim Lang vs Jsonnet: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Jsonnet? A data templating language for app and tool developers. It is a data templating language for app and tool developers. It is a powerful DSL for elegant description of JSON data.

Slim Lang and Jsonnet can be categorized as "Templating Languages & Extensions" tools.

Slim Lang and Jsonnet are both open source tools. It seems that Slim Lang with 4.86K GitHub stars and 481 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Jsonnet with 3.34K GitHub stars and 264 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Slim Lang	Jsonnet
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.	It is a data templating language for app and tool developers. It is a powerful DSL for elegant description of JSON data.
-	Generate config data; Side-effect free; Organize, simplify, unify; Manage sprawling config
Statistics
GitHub Stars 5.4K	GitHub Stars 7.4K
GitHub Forks 499	GitHub Forks 468
Stacks 65	Stacks 207
Followers 57	Followers 37
Votes 50	Votes 2
Pros & Cons
Pros 13 Easier to type and maintain than haml 12 Very clean and logical 9 Integrates with Rails by installing a single gem 8 Performs better than haml 4 Concise Cons 2 Not so good editor support 1 Overcomplicated syntax 1 Lots of syntactic corner cases 1 Easy to break nesting when reindenting or copy-pasting	Pros 1 Data templating (not string templating) 1 Side-effect free 0 Dashboard as a code
Integrations
No integrations available	IntelliJ IDEA Golang C++ Atom Visual Studio Code Vim CodeMirror Sublime Text Emacs

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