This article has kind of occam's razored me, because I can't actually tell if the author is serious. Do the inline HTML strings common to this style of programming remind anyone else of the good old days of writing PHP code with a bunch of echo statements and concatenated strings to build your pages? It seems to me that the author has sort of managed to move the V from MVC into the C, which I thought we had already discovered was a bad idea.

I work in a Flask and Jinja shop, so it's not really fair for me to pass judgement one way or another without having actually spent a month using this style. I just can't help preferring the Jinja method of templates that are mostly HTML with some templating code mixed in, vs. executable code that happens to be mostly concatenated strings of HTML.