Embedded Crystal - Template language

Embedded Crystal is a template language created in 2016.

#101on PLDB

8Years Old

287Repos

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/

Embedded Crystal (ECR) is a template language for embedding Crystal code into other text, that includes but is not limited to HTML. The template is read and transformed at compile time and then embedded into the binary.

Tags: template language
Embedded Crystal is developed on GitHub and has 19,260 stars
There are at least 287 Embedded Crystal repos on GitHub
Early development of Embedded Crystal happened in Manas Technology Solutions
Embedded Crystal is written in Crystal, Embedded Crystal, YAML, Markdown, HTML, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bourne shell, CSS, C, SVG, Make, XML, Python, JSON, Z shell, Bash, C++, Nix, Ini
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Embedded Crystal
Read more about Embedded Crystal on the web: 1.
4 PLDB concepts link to Embedded Crystal: cloc, Crystal, Embedded Crystal, Pegasus

Example from the web:

# greeting.ecr
<%- if @name -%>
Greeting, <%= @name %>!
<%- else -%>
Greeting!
<%- end -%>

Greeting.new(nil).to_s #=> Greeting!

Example from Linguist:

<% if @name %>
  Greeting, <%= @name %>!
<% else %>
  Greeting!
<% end %>

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	# A comment
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Semantic Indentation	X