Mako - Template language

Mako is a template language created in 2006.

#785on PLDB

18Years Old

188Repos

Mako is a template library written in Python. It provides a familiar, non-XML syntax which compiles into Python modules for maximum performance. Mako's syntax and API borrows from the best ideas of many others, including Django and Jinja2 templates, Cheetah, Myghty, and Genshi. Conceptually, Mako is an embedded Python (i.e. Python Server Page) language, which refines the familiar ideas of componentized layout and inheritance to produce one of the most straightforward and flexible models available, while also maintaining close ties to Python calling and scoping semantics. Mako is used by reddit.com where it delivers over one billion page views per month. It is the default template language included with the Pylons and Pyramid web frameworks.

Tags: template language
There are at least 188 Mako repos on GitHub
Early development of Mako happened in https://www.makotemplates.org/community.html
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 4k users using Mako in 4k repos on GitHub
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Mako
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Mako
makotemplates.org was registered in 2006
3 PLDB concepts link to Mako: cloc, Mindsdb, Pygments

Example from the web:

<%inherit file="base.html"/>
<%
    rows = [[v for v in range(0,10)] for row in range(0,10)]
%>
<table>
    % for row in rows:
        ${makerow(row)}
    % endfor
</table>

<%def name="makerow(row)">
    <tr>
    % for name in row:
        <td>${name}</td>\
    % endfor
    </tr>
</%def>

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓
MultiLine Comments	✓