"Jacob Carlborg" <d...@me.com> wrote in message news:iufbc8$22ob$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 2011-06-29 10:29, Walter Bright wrote: >> On 6/28/2011 11:46 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: >>> I think it makes it hard when most of the pages are written in DDOC. >>> It doesn't >>> help to attract web designers. >> >> I have no idea what professional web designers use, but I did many web >> pages using html in a regular text editor. >> >> It was awful. > > That *is* awful. I use Ruby on Rails with the following languages (and > what they compile to): > > HAML -> HTML > SASS -> CSS > CoffeeScript -> JavaScript > > And Ruby of course. >
I wouldn't mind switching to some "compile down to HTML/CSS/etc" thing, but all the mature ones I've seen seem to place a strong emphasis on whitespace-syntax which is something I can't stand. YAML's about the only place I can really tolerate it (at least in large part because it's purely optional, and because it's purely a data language (but then, so are HTML and CSS)). And then there's some other rediculous thing CoffeeScript does...umm, IIRC, I think it's implicit declarations.
