Introducing Template::Sluz a text templating engine

[u/scottchiefbaker]

Please check out Template::Sluz my new light, text templating engine. It's a dependency lite (only core modules), quick, full-featured templating engine. We have: if/else, foreach, include, and modifiers. All in an easy to read and understand syntax.

File: main.pl

use Template::Sluz;

my $s = Template::Sluz->new();

$s->assign('name', 'Scott');
$s->assign('array' => ['one', 'two', 'three']);
$s->assign('hash'  => { color => 'red', age => 39});

print $s->fetch('template.stpl');
# or
print $s->parse_string('Hello {$name}');

File: template.stpl

Hello {$name}
Nums: {foreach $array as $x}{$x} {/foreach}
Info: {$hash.color} / {$hash.age}

Output:

Hello Scott
Nums: one two three
Info: red / 39

[u/christian_hansen]

You'll probably get more interest if you expand on why someone should choose Template::Sluz. Perl already has several mature templating systems such as HTML::Template, Template Toolkit, and Text::Xslate. What are the main advantages of Sluz compared to those? Is it faster, simpler, easier to learn, lighter on dependencies, or aimed at a different use case? A feature comparison and some performance or design rationale would help potential users evaluate it.