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Slim is an open source template language created in 2010 by Andy Stone.

Source code:

git clone https://github.com/slim-template/slim

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A lightweight templating engine

Slim website
Slim is developed on GitHub and has 5,110 stars
There are at least 305 Slim repos on GitHub
Slim first developed in https://github.com/slim-template
file extensions for Slim include slim
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 176 users using Slim in 206 repos on GitHub
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Slim
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Slim
slim-lang.com was registered in 2010
Read more about Slim on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

doctype html
html
  head
    title Slim Examples
    meta name="keywords" content="template language"
    meta name="author" content=author
    javascript:
      alert('Slim supports embedded javascript!')

  body
    h1 Markup examples

Example from hello-world:

doctype html
head
  title Hello World
body
  h1 Hello World

Example from Linguist:

doctype html
html
  head
    title Slim Examples
    meta name="keywords" content="template language"
    meta name="author" content=author
    javascript:
      alert('Slim supports embedded javascript!')

  body
    h1 Markup examples

    #content
      p This example shows you how a basic Slim file looks like.

      == yield

      - unless items.empty?
        table
          - for item in items do
            tr
              td.name = item.name
              td.price = item.price
      - else
        p
         | No items found.  Please add some inventory.
           Thank you!

    div id="footer"
      = render 'footer'
      | Copyright © #{year} #{author}

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