[Catalyst] Templating languages (was RFC: The paradox of choice in web development)

[Dermot]

2009/2/19 Byron Young <Byron.Young at riverbed.com>:
> Jonathan Rockway wrote on 2009-02-19:
>> * On Wed, Feb 18 2009, Dermot wrote:
>>> Yes there is, at first glance, a lot of choice but is there. I would
>>> say TT and Mason are the only realistic choices (for HTML).
>>
>> If by "realistic" you mean "unmaintainable for both designers and
>> developers", then yes, you've described Mason and TT.
>>
>> The only qualities that Mason and TT have over other options is that
>> they have been around for a while.
>
> Jonathan,
>
> Can I ask - what are the limitations with Mason (and TT) in your opinion?  I have been using it as the templating language for my Cat app (seemed better than TT because I could exclude having to learn a new language for the templates - I can just keep writing perl code).

TT is perl. It's not a different language. It's a bit of a learning
curve. It provides familiar methods* like keys, splice, exists and
substr.
I <*_*> TT
Dp.


* http://template-toolkit.org/docs/manual/VMethods.html