Embedded Crystal

Embedded Crystal is a template language created in 2016.

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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.

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Embedded Crystal is developed on GitHub and has 17,909 stars
There are at least 287 Embedded Crystal repos on GitHub
Embedded Crystal first developed in Manas Technology Solutions
file extensions for Embedded Crystal include ecr
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Embedded Crystal
Read more about Embedded Crystal on the web: 1.
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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 %>

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

Embedded Crystal - Template language

Language features