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The time is right for a DOM templating API

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218 points mdhb | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 19:23 UTC | HN request time: 1.339s | source
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aatd86 ◴[27 Jun 25 08:35 UTC] No.44394976[source]▶
I don't quite understand. The DOM is/needs a functional API. Why bolt another DSL on top?

Now you have to find a way for javascript to interact with your template language.

While functions are sufficient. That doesn't look like orthogonal language design.

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1. austin-cheney ◴[27 Jun 25 10:41 UTC] No.44395653[source]▶
People want this because JSX is all they are capable of.

One reason why things like this have never happened before is because the people who need this are only barely capable of working with HTML. The DOM supports a wide variety of technologies far outside and unrelated to HTML.