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monrichi8564y@theuser me too. But it just never occurred to me until today that there could be alternatives for html. So I thought this was very interesting.
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Well, technically it's just a preprocessor, like a templating engine, right? Browsers only read HTML anyways.
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Voxera115854yIts not an alternative.
Its a markup language that is converted into html using ruby just like hundreds other markup languages.
Personally I do not consider it easier to read. If I wanted easier to read markdown is better as its even more dimple syntax.
The closest “alternative” is pure xml + xslt.
The reason is that both are sent to the browser as plain text and uses the built in support of the browser to convert into html right in the browser.
And while the xslt can be very complex, once you have it designed the xml can be very simple and easy to read with context oriented elements. -
bagfox8724yThe only reason I don’t use HTML is when I make a pen, then, it’s easier to write haml.
Def wouldn’t change HTML for anything. -
Kimmax111064yI use haml for bootstrap
.container#main
.row
.col-6.col-lg4
Is much nicer to read when it comes to 73363949302727 nested divs IMHO -
Haml just compiles to HTML.
Like how Sass/Less/Stylus compiles to CSS
or
Typescript/Elm/CoffeScript/ClojureScript compiles to JS.
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