Is haml a sinking ship?

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I’ve been using haml for years. Unfortunately there was no commit to the repo since February and the repo in general became a quiet place. Haml became very popular and it’s syntax is closer to Rubys syntax, so why it never replaced ERB in Rails? Is it a sinking ship?

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What do you mean by “replace ERB”?
HAML can only be used in HTML while ERB can be used in text, JavaScript other file types with text only.

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I wouldn’t judge if it’s going away by it’s commit history. It’s largely a feature complete tool. It generates html. It’s being updated for new versions of ruby as they land.

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haml is not something I ever went for. But I’m a huge fan of Arbre for generating HTML from Ruby like code. It’s fantastic!!!

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Looks neat!

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We used Slim at my last job. Seems a bit better than HAML in my opinion.

ERB just feels too “PHP” for me. :wink: ERB also has some weird quirks and it’s closed sourced… :expressionless:

A long time ago I wrote two blog posts about ERB. You can read 'em here: https://ohm.sh/2013/11/07/failing-comments-in-erubis.html and https://ohm.sh/2013/11/15/even-more-failing-comments.html I never heard from the maintainer of ERB about my concerns.

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