Type-safe HTML templating in Zig
A developer shares their experience building a type-safe HTML templating library called 'zt' for the Zig programming language. The article explores how Zig's comptime features allow for high-level web development without the overhead of traditional frameworks.
Why it matters
It demonstrates the growing interest in using systems programming languages for web development, challenging the dominance of JavaScript-heavy ecosystems.
I’ve done a lot of web development over the years. I started around the year 2000, just after PHP 3.0 was released and started taking over the web world. I’ve used all kinds of approaches for generating HTML: raw PHP, string concatenation in Python, Smarty templates in PHP, Template Toolkit in Perl, and Jinja/Django templates in Python. Then, as the world moved on to SPAs and JavaScript frameworks, I stopped working on frontends.
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