Plot

You should check out Elm[0] if you haven’t already. It’s also worth noting that things like JSX and Vue templates are just syntactic sugar over render functions that look very similar to the example you gave (albeit less terse). John Sundell also has a Swift DSL[1] for generating HTML in a similar fashion, though Swift on the server is still very niche. Obviously these all still ultimately produce HTML, but they do offer some nice accordances for the developer. [0]: https://guide.elm-lang.org/ [1]: https://github.com/JohnSundell/Plot

John Sundell is awesome. Other stuff he’s done: Plot: Write type safe HTML/RSS/XML in Swift https://github.com/JohnSundell/Plot Ink: Converts markdown to HTML https://github.com/JohnSundell/Ink Swift by Sundell blog https://www.swiftbysundell.com/ Podcast https://www.swiftbysundell.com/podcast I really love these lightweight, JavaScript free websites he’s helping create in Swift. It’s such a better experience loading and reading than other blogs - the inlined sponsor/ads even look nice and don’t feel overwhelming or annoying (I usually read them!).