Cool project. I'm currently building something similar to hacker news using only the standard library. How could this project help me?

The way I use the standard library is like a super condensed version of React. Templates are my components. Since templates can be nested, templates can be used to build "components" and those components can be stored in separate files and compiled together at run time with a "model" being fed to the template(s) via a state object passed by the application.

So I may have a few dozen template files in a folder called /components, and another folder called /pages with a few templates that use these components. When a user visits a "page", the template file is "compiled" with the appropriate components.

A page might look like this:

  <html>
    {{template "nav"}}
    {{template "thread" .Thread}}
    {{template "footer"}}
  </html>

And "nav", "thread", and "footer" are all components defined in another file. This allows for re-use across multiple pages.

I want to do a write-up on it but I'm not sure if it's a novel idea.