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Dust vs Slim Lang: What are the differences?
Dust: Asynchronous templates for the browser and node.js. Dust is a JavaScript templating engine designed to provide a clean separation between presentation and logic without sacrificing ease of use. It is particularly well-suited for asynchronous and streaming applications; 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.
Dust and Slim Lang can be primarily classified as "Templating Languages & Extensions" tools.
Dust and Slim Lang are both open source tools. It seems that Slim Lang with 4.84K GitHub stars and 473 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Dust with 1.48K GitHub stars and 136 GitHub forks.
Pros of Dust
Pros of Slim Lang
- Easier to type and maintain than haml13
- Very clean and logical12
- Integrates with Rails by installing a single gem9
- Performs better than haml8
- Concise4
- Extensive package support in sublime text 2 and 33
- Atom package support1
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Cons of Dust
Cons of Slim Lang
- Not so good editor support2
- Overcomplicated syntax1
- Lots of syntactic corner cases1
- Easy to break nesting when reindenting or copy-pasting1
