ha man I hate Jinja. Nothing against this or Rust, just from working in Flask I have borderline nightmares. That might say more about my team that the framework though.
I've used Jinja a lot and always thought that it struck just about the right balance.
The docs are also way better than they used to be.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110727181325/http://jinja.poco...
Go templating on the other hand, that drove me bananas.
I’ve been using Django templates since 2006. Jinja was designed after Django templates of that era, fixing their most glaring problems. Don’t remember the exact year when I started using Jinja a lot. Maybe 2013.
For example, a pure existence of an {% include %} tag. People use it, implicitly passing many arguments to some other template. Which makes it very hard to understand and change later.
Macros are not that pleasant to use, there are less features in macros then in Python functions, and tools support is much worse too (static analysis, formatting, etc).
Filters… why do I need to write `value|string` instead of `str(value)`?
Etc.