ITS just bizzare people want to parse JavaScript at the same instance they're parsing html.

Also, LLMs are going to destroy any new framework. Someone's gonna need to figure out how to integrate these things into new tools. LLMs suck but it'll be much worse if they freeze innovations cause they're too expensive to chase the new hotness.

    element.innerHTML=`
      <p>Today is ${new Date().toDateString()}</p>
      <p>Random number: ${Math.floor(Math.random() * 100)}</p>
    `

At that point I think I'd have a skeleton html file that fetches a JS that does it all. I'd take JS with embedded HTML over HTML with embedded JS.

marko is not comparable to php

it is much closer to svelte

i used to sympathize with people complaining about js-fatigue, but at some point its a skill issue

  p “Today is {Date.today}”,
  p “Random number: {(^100).pick}”

1. There is HTML (tags) with, but without interpolation {...} you can put string literals, variables and everything that type checks as HTML children.

2. There is CSS but only in style blocks where you can interpolate any expression you need and put in if and case expressions too.

3. There is the normal Mint code you write the logic in (this would be the JavaScript in other languages).

Here is an example which have all three: https://mint-lang.com/examples/7guis/flight-booker

The challenge was to make it seamless enough that so it doesn't look like that we tried to mash languages up, but to make them form a different language that is consistent and simple at the same time.

Edit: typo

I used to use it years ago. So much nicer than HTML.

• JSX is well understood by a lot of developers • support is already built in to text editors • it is understood by typescript