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Slim Lang

Template language whose goal is reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic
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What is Slim Lang?

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.
Slim Lang is a tool in the Templating Languages & Extensions category of a tech stack.
Slim Lang is an open source tool with 5.3K GitHub stars and 500 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Slim Lang's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Slim Lang?

Companies
17 companies reportedly use Slim Lang in their tech stacks, including all, Zepto, and Software.

Developers
49 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Slim Lang.

Slim Lang Integrations

Pros of Slim Lang
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Easier to type and maintain than haml
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Very clean and logical
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Integrates with Rails by installing a single gem
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Performs better than haml
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Concise
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Extensive package support in sublime text 2 and 3
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Atom package support

Slim Lang Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Slim Lang?
TypeScript
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
Handlebars.js
Handlebars.js is an extension to the Mustache templating language created by Chris Wanstrath. Handlebars.js and Mustache are both logicless templating languages that keep the view and the code separated like we all know they should be.
Mustache
Mustache is a logic-less template syntax. It can be used for HTML, config files, source code - anything. It works by expanding tags in a template using values provided in a hash or object. We call it "logic-less" because there are no if statements, else clauses, or for loops. Instead there are only tags. Some tags are replaced with a value, some nothing, and others a series of values.
Jinja
It is a full featured template engine for Python. It has full unicode support, an optional integrated sandboxed execution environment, widely used and BSD licensed.
Smarty
Facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. This implies that PHP code is application logic, and is separated from the presentation
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Slim Lang's Followers
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