Comment by globular-toast
5 hours ago
Exactly. There are a few libraries to achieve a similar thing in Python:
* https://pypi.org/project/fast_html/
* https://fastht.ml/ (different to above, I think)
* https://github.com/volfpeter/fasthx
Probably others. I strongly prefer this to templating, but I find it makes dyed in the wool Django people squirm.
iommi is wroth mentioning here. It is different from an HTML generator, but one of the things it does is greatly reduce the amount of HTML you need write.
There are a lot of cool things about these, one that they are less typo prone and also they are often much faster.
The downside is I find them hard to read.
I think the template approach isn't quite right and yet neither is the functional approach.
At the end of the day these are a type of tree structure; I think we could conjure a new mechanism that gets the best of most/both worlds.