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Hogan.js vs Slim Lang: What are the differences?
Hogan.js: A compiler for the Mustache templating language. Hogan.js is a 3.4k JS templating engine developed at Twitter. Use it as a part of your asset packager to compile templates ahead of time or include it in your browser to handle dynamic templates; 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.
Hogan.js and Slim Lang can be primarily classified as "Templating Languages & Extensions" tools.
"Lightweight" is the primary reason why developers consider Hogan.js over the competitors, whereas "Easier to type and maintain than haml" was stated as the key factor in picking Slim Lang.
Hogan.js and Slim Lang are both open source tools. Hogan.js with 5K GitHub stars and 437 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Slim Lang with 4.84K GitHub stars and 473 GitHub forks.
Pros of Hogan.js
- Lightweight3
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 Hogan.js
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
