A tale in 3 pictures. In which our hero wonders if he can and doesn't stop to ask if he should.

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@citizen428 That's called GNU M4.
@jwo Technically it's called an ill-advised use of my time that should never have happened, but yeah.
@citizen428 Well, something like this is provided as a quasi-standard Kotlin/Ktor library IIRC.
@jwo Yup, kotlinx.html. Rust has https://maud.lambda.xyz. There's plenty of precedent, but that doesn't make this specific late night digression a good idea.
Maud, a macro for writing HTML