Slim is a template language whose goal is to reduce the view syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic.

A short list of the features: - elegant syntax: short syntax without closing tags, HTML style mode with closing tags and configurable shortcut tags - automatic HTML escaping and support for Rails' `html_safe?` - highly configurable and extendable via plugins: logic less mode similar to Mustache and translator/I18n support among others. - high performance: comparable speed to ERB and streaming support in Rails - supported by all major frameworks (Rails, Sinatra, ...) - full Unicode support for tags and attributes on Ruby 1.9 - embedded engines like Markdown and Textile