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Life & fun · January 13, 2026

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HyTags – HTML as a Programming Language

This is hyTags, a programming language embedded in HTML for building interactive web UIs. It started as a way to write full-stack web apps in Swift without a separate frontend, but grew into a small language with control flow, functions, and async handling via HTML tags. The result is backend language-agnostic and can be generated from any server that can produce HTML via templates or DSLs.

HyTags – HTML as a Programming Language launched on January 13, 2026 with 69 votes, #485 of 14,585 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

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HyTags is a programming language embedded in HTML tags that enables building interactive web UIs without separate frontend code. It supports control flow, functions, and asynchronous handling through HTML syntax, making it backend language-agnostic and compatible with any server capable of generating HTML. Originally developed for writing full-stack web applications in Swift, the language has evolved to work with templates and domain-specific languages from various backend systems.

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