simplification in templating library?

[movalz]

Coming from Xtext with Xtend's templating mechanism, I find the Langium templates with nested expandToNode, joinToNode and ternary operators significantly less readable. Are there any plans to enhance the templating mechanism to get it better writable/readable (like Xtend's templating is)?

[msujew]

Hey @movalz,

in the end, we're limited by the TypeScript language with regards to the syntax that we can use to provide such features. And so far, the templating engine that we expose via langium/generate works well for our needs. We definitely don't plan on building another Xtend, but adopters of Langium are already free to use a variety of templating engines available on npm. In case you have specific improvements to the existing API, feel free to create a feature request in our repo :)