A declarative langauge for building websites
The layout of daze code is unique. Here is the basic layout:
$variables
# Variables Here.
$content
# Webpage code here.
Here is a basic overview of these sections
The $variables section is the place to declare all variables. Variables are declared using the syntax +!variable=content. You may have an unlimited amount of variables, although this may increase the compilation time.
An example $variables section would be:
$variables
!bestlanguage="Daze"
Variables may only store strings for the time. This will change soon.
Strings must be enclosed in " or '. Variables do not support key/value sets or lists for the moment. Basic logical programming and addition will be comming soon (tm). You may set variables to other variables, but wherever you reference a variable with !, you must make sure to follow the variable name with a space. Additionally, metavariables may be used to store basic information about the site. All variables here are put into Meta tags, excluding the %title variable, which gets inserted into a <title> tag at compilation. Metavariables follow the rules of variables with the addition of being able to reference metavariables using % instead of a !.
The $content section contains all the visible content on the site. Variables may not be declared here. You can use any normal HTML tags here. Here is the syntax:
(tag: content). Pretty simple, right? Content must be enclosed in quotes, and you may only reference variables inside of the quotes. Make sure to follow all the variable references with a space. But there is a catch to this aproach: There is no area for attributes. There is a solution. After each tag, you can place an attribute. The syntax for this is almost identical to the syntax for declaring a variable. Here it is: +attribute=content. Like the variables, these may only store strings enclosed in "" or ''. This will not change in the future. You cannot reference variables in attributes.
Compilation is easy with the daze tool installed. This tool is currently available as a standalone tool (available in the releases). The only requirement to install the tool is to have python installed. This requirement will be removed soon, as a bianary package is in the works. Here is the syntax for the daze tool:
daze compile <input .daze file> <output .daze file>
With Yay or your favorite AUR helper:
yay -S daze
With AUR support enabled from Add/Remove Software:
pamac install daze
Download the daze file from releases. Add this file to PATH. The daze command should be available after relaunching the terminal. An installation script is comming soon along with a Debian package.