[stringtemplate-interest] On Pragmatism Violating Purity For The Win

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:20:04PM -0700, Jonathan Buhacoff wrote:
>>
>> We all believe ST's purity is valuable, but if many people can't use  
>> ST, who cares?  I believe purist inflexibility is hurting ST for some 
>> projects and crimping its growth.  I believe something like "model.*" 
>> addresses critical ST adoption issues and makes ST more accessible, 
>> flexible, and relevant to more projects.

ST is very good at handling its defined problem set.
In fact, it's simply the best (only, really) at view templating,
whilst keeping strict model and view separation.

For complex/ larger systems, the 'view' (ST) may needs its own
view-specific model, or view model. This is manifested for example
with custom renderers, which I use for example to format Java
style comments to line wrap correctly.

>>
> Here's my take, for what it's worth:
...
> I think it's fine if ST is less popular, as long as it stays the most  
> useful :)

:)

It _is_ the most useful :)

Just not everyone's quite become aware of that yet. Gives me a little
warm tickle inside me to think about it.

Kumbaya..

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