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Templating engines
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 4 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Templating engines, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Untyped templates make wiring the real language to markup tedious, error-prone toil2024-03-10
- Templating syntax is hard to learn and makes people produce errors2016-08-29
- Static API makes it hard to inject the engine into other code2015-04-09
- Designers cannot verify template edits without the running application, so every markup change is risky2011-12-11