Liquid templating language
Shares rank 4 of 6 template engines by recommenders
Recommended for running customer-written templates safely and for avoiding a new template syntax. Critics say its optimizations are basic.
Recommended for running customer-written templates safely and for avoiding a new template syntax. Critics say its optimizations are basic.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 71%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Basic performance optimizations
“the optimizations are so basic that I'd expect a performance engineer to find these within a day or two”
Comment from 23 Mar 2026 in “I tried Karpathy's Autoresearch on an old research project”
Other template engines people recommend
The four most recommended other template engines, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jinja | 14 | 7 | 67% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Templ | 9 | 3 | 75% | 4 | — | — |
| ASP.NET Razor | 8 | 1 | 89% | 5 | — | — |
| Liquid templating languageThis page | 5 | 2 | 71% | 2 | — | — |
| Pug template engine | 5 | 2 | 71% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the optimizations are so basic that I'd expect a performance engineer to find these within a day or two”
“Why did you do that instead of using Liquid templates?”
“have me dissatisfied with Liquid”
“One key feature of Liquid is that you can safely run customer-written code on your servers without worrying about security.”
“Why they call pipes filter? And if... endif? Not for me”
“Liquid conformance avoids learning new template syntax or a programming language.”
“these are all good tools IMO”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.