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I think you'll just see a pattern like:

    html(t"<h1>Hello</h1>")

And highlighters and static analyzers will key off of this.

JavaScript's tagged template literals are actually about as flexible as this, since you can dynamically choose the tag function, it's just very rare to do so, so tools assume a lot based on the name of the function. Python tools can basically do the same thing, and just not support t-strings that aren't nested inside a well-named processing function.

> And highlighters and static analyzers will key off of this.

Then the t is redundant and we don’t need t strings involved in any way. This would work just as well. In fact better by using html("<h1>Hello</h1>") and have it return a html object instead of returning a just a string which is what t-strings will do. So literally the only contribution from t-strings in that context is to make things worse.

If they had just standardized some way of putting semantics into the template everything would be better. Let us define a “sql = temlate(….)” and use sql”…”

Another option would be type hints, something like `title: HTMLTemplate = t"<h1>Hello</h1>"`.

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