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Lua can be a really cool HTML templating engine · riki's house

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It’s a pretty cool language. It is also one of my favourite programming languages, for which I made a case in a past blog post.

Have you ever used Lua? It’s a pretty cool language. It is also one of my favourite programming languages, for which I made a case in a past blog post . One of my favourite aspects of Lua’s design that I like to preach about is how it’s really tight and small, while also being genuinely really sweet to write. Today, I’d like to focus on its Lisp-like aspect: domain specific languages (DSLs)—specifically, we will use it to build a templating language for HTML. But first, let me set some background. What’s in a template engine? As a fellow blogger on the Internet maintaining their own blogging s

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