Template engines are commonly found generating web pages, customer reports, or even source code. They take a source template and data model as input and generate some desired output.
Boostache was started as the Library in a Week challenge from CppNow'14. It initially supported the mustache template format and a recursive variant based data model.
Today Boostache supports multiple template formats and adapts automagically at compile time to a variety of user defined data models. Many of the techniques utilized in Boostache are the same that Ciere has employed in custom IDL compilers and Domain Specific Language systems, compilers, and runtimes.
This talk will introduce Boostache and then delve into the internal architecture and design of the library. We will explore some implementation details of the parser, compiler, virtual machine, and generic data model infrastructure with the goal to expose useful techniques and patterns from this C++11 code base that can be used in participants libraries and applications.
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