Haml on the Horizon

posted by pete on June 11th, 2007

Jim Weirich, the creator of rake, just posted an interview with Bruce Tate, who is one of the most high-profile converts from Java to Ruby.

In the interview, he makes reference to Haml in a flattering light:

“You can easily imagine one of the HAML-like languages putting a dent in HTML.”

Now, what’s most interesting to me about this is that Bruce has essentially named a class of languages after Haml, and that’s quite the honour for a markup syntax that has yet to be adopted by more than one platform, even if a PHP version is in the works.

Hampton and Nathan are clearly on the right track. Thanks to Geoffrey Grosenback for the hot tip!