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Discussion on: A First Look at MarkoJS

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Mihail Malo

Have you tried the "concise syntax" at all?
It is kinda like Pug(Jade).

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Ryan Carniato

Torn on this one. I used to love using Jade and CoffeeScript and Stylus, but white space matters less of my preference now. As a library writer the fact that we support this is really quite annoying. Marko actually allows concise and not concise mode in the same file. It limits syntax parsing potential which makes it harder for people no using concise mode. Maybe we will make this stricter in the future, but never want to hurt backwards compatibility. As the new guy though this is one of those things where I wasn't there and am just... Why?....

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Mihail Malo • Edited

I totally missed the part that you work on Marko now.
Does this mean Solid is kill?

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Ryan Carniato

Not at all. These have opposite design philosophies and in many ways opposite strengths. I get the opportunity to explore both. I'm learning a ton and I find the situation very symbiotic.

Both deserve to exist the same way say React and Svelte do. This beneficial for both libraries as it gives insight that these approaches usually don't have from the other side.