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I think making the spec easy to write and easy to parse would be huge. Have you tried creating any parsers yet?

Nope, no yet. But I've got few recommendations from hamlit gem author Takashi Kokobun.

Takashi recommends to take a look at these gems: - https://github.com/judofyr/temple - https://github.com/eagletmt/haml_parser

If you create it in Ruby, you're going to have a bad time. The reason I love Hugo is that it is fast and compiles. I'd love to see an optimized implementation of a markdown language and template engine in C, but Hugo is next best.

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