Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language that makes building web apps fun
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·November 8, 2025AbstractH24
There’s some joke here about how that’s in contrast to Marketo…
croisillon
previously:
January 2023, 125 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34591625
August 2017, 150 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15057371
February 2015, 10 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9065447
shevy-java
<p>Today is ${new Date().toDateString()}</p>
<p>Random number: ${Math.floor(Math.random() * 100)}</p>
The intro is also incorrect in my opinion. It writes a "HTML-based language", but this is more a hybrid of HTML and JavaScript. Why is JavaScript not mentioned in the intro?
cco
How would you prefer to write those examples?
cyanydeez
Don't blame Marko for this type of abomination. This is basically fancy react JSX.
ITS just bizzare people want to parse JavaScript at the same instance they're parsing html.
Also, LLMs are going to destroy any new framework. Someone's gonna need to figure out how to integrate these things into new tools. LLMs suck but it'll be much worse if they freeze innovations cause they're too expensive to chase the new hotness.
Kiro
You two are complaining about different things. Note how the parent mentioned PHP as the reference.
whatshisface
LLMs can make use of documentation and example code.
The problem when taking several languages and mixing them together this way is that the result is supposed to have brevity, but it’s actually unreadable. You need slash to mean something grammatical, colon has to say something, you can speak “open brace” in a way that anticipates; @ means “at”. This code looks more like a compression scheme.