[stringtemplate-interest] IronStringTemplate

[Todd Stout]

StringTemplate works just fine with .Net now.  What is the motivation for
re-implementing it?

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Robert Byrne <rob at fractis.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
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> I’m toying with the idea of building a StringTemplate implementation for
> the DLR (Microsoft .NET Dynamic Language Runtime), hence the Iron prefix
> which matches up with other projects like IronPython, IronRuby etc.
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> The primary use case I’m thinking is for ASP.NET, where I have one
> pressing need: I must be able to use existing ASP.NET server controls.
> This means I can’t use StringTemplate out of the box, so it got me thinking
> about building an interpreter/translator that would sit on top of normal
> ASP.NET MVC pages. I really believe in the clean view only semantics and
> philosophy of StringTemplate, as well as its clean syntax, especially as the
> templates are edited by web designers who cant deal with the traditional
> ASP.NET syntax.
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> I also feel that a native .NET implementation on the DLR with ASP.NET in
> mind can provide a better developer experience (i.e. support for concepts
> useful in web application development) and better performance/scalability
> too.
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> Because I want to get my hands dirty with the DLR and ANTLR, I'm
> essentially scratchbuilding the project, starting from a handwritten grammar
> up.
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> Would there be any interest in this? I can imagine there are a few people
> who want to adopt StringTemplate but are bound by the requirement to use
> existing 3rd party server controls like datagrids etc, or would like to
> use traditional ASP.NET views with some StringTemplate markup.
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> Also, is there any objection to the use of the name/syntax in an
> ‘unofficial’ spin off, considering that it would not be a fully compatible
> implementation (I intend not to implement some advanced features like
> parallel template application (for now) as well as add some additional
> features that are meaningful to web application development, also no
> groups). I would of course include all the relevant notices and
> attributions. My only concern is that it could cause confusion in the
> community, as to what the relationship is between the ‘official’ version and
> this upstart one.
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> Any thoughts are welcome.
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> Regards,
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> Robert.
>
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