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I like writing Perl, I want to write Perl, so when I have to switch contexts to HTML it annoys me. To compound this problem, I just got off a project that used a tool called I like writing Perl, I want to write Perl, so when I have to switch contexts to HTML it annoys me. To compound this problem, I just got off a project that used a tool called
<a href="https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup">hiccup</a>, hiccup let me write code in its native toungue (Clojure), and get back HTML in the form of a string. This rocked! <a href="https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup">hiccup</a>, hiccup let me write code in its native toungue (Clojure), and get back HTML in the form of a string. This rocked!
Not only did I not have to write HTML, it was actually <i>intuitive</i>, it provided me with a DSL for HTML. So I took this idea, and ported it to Perl, in the form of Not only did I not have to write HTML, it was actually <i>intuitive</i>, it provided me with a DSL for HTML. So I took this idea, and ported it to Perl, in the form of
<a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::Composer">HTML::Composer</a>. HTML::Composer is a library that does its best to emulate that sort of intuitiveness, and to my surprise, <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/HTML::Composer">HTML::Composer</a>. HTML::Composer is a library that does its best to emulate that sort of intuitiveness, inside of Perl. To my surprise
it seems to. it seems to, and even more suprisingly, it performs incredibly well.
</p> </p>
<h2>HTML::Composer</h2> <h2>HTML::Composer</h2>
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]); ]);
say $html; say $html; # &lt;div&gt;Hello, World!&lt;a href="https://www.google.com"&lt; ...
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Since HTML::Composer operates inside of Perl data structures, and doesn't need to parse HTML, it's quite fast. Faster than any other HTML templating library I could find. Since HTML::Composer operates inside of Perl data structures, and doesn't need to do any string parsing, it's quite fast. Faster than any other templating library outputting HTML I could find.
The following benchmark is the average of five different one-hundred-million iteration runs rendering a medium sized HTML page that changed between iterations, The following benchmark is the average of five different one-hundred-million iteration runs rendering a medium sized HTML page that changed between iterations,
with the caveat being, each of these libraries was expected to take an input scalar and output to a scalar variable (Text::Xslate is optimized to read from a file not a string, so it hated this benchmark): with the caveat being, each of these libraries was expected to take an input scalar and output to a scalar variable (Text::Xslate is optimized to read from a file not a string, so it hated this benchmark):
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