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Slim Lang

Template language whose goal is reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic
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What is Slim Lang?

Slim is a template language whose goal is to reduce the view syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic. It started as an exercise to see how much could be removed from a standard html template (<, >, closing tags, etc...). As more people took an interest in Slim, the functionality grew and so did the flexibility of the syntax.
Slim Lang is a tool in the Templating Languages & Extensions category of a tech stack.
Slim Lang is an open source tool with 5.3K GitHub stars and 499 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Slim Lang's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Slim Lang?

Companies
17 companies reportedly use Slim Lang in their tech stacks, including all, Zepto, and Software.

Developers
49 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Slim Lang.

Slim Lang Integrations

Pros of Slim Lang
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Easier to type and maintain than haml
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Very clean and logical
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Integrates with Rails by installing a single gem
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Performs better than haml
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Concise
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Extensive package support in sublime text 2 and 3
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Atom package support

Slim Lang Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Slim Lang?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
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