# Liquid templating language

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Liquid templating language and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for running customer-written templates safely and for avoiding a new template syntax. Critics say its optimizations are basic.

## What people warn about

- Basic performance optimizations (1 comments): "the optimizations are so basic that I'd expect a performance engineer to find these within a day or two" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494272))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Jinja](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jinja.md): 14 recommend
- [Templ](https://hackerapproved.com/p/templ.md): 9 recommend
- [ASP.NET Razor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/razor.md): 8 recommend
- [Pug template engine](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pug.md): 5 recommend
- [Gsxui](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gsxui.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Liquid templating language", https://hackerapproved.com/p/liquid-templating-language/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).