Why not totally replace Swig with Nunjucks?

[mamboer]

I notice that the code base of Hexo uses Swig along with Nunjucks.
Swig isn't maintained currently, why not just replace all the Swig stuff with Nunjucks

[PhiLhoSoft]

Swig, Nunjucks, EJS, that's lot of template engines for one application...
Alas, if we use an existing template, EJS is probably mandatory, as all templates I looked at use it.
Unless there is an EJS to Nunjucks converter somewhere?

[ivanoats]

I'd agree with @mamboer on this one. It's a bit scary to look at the giant "unmaintained" notice on Swig's github repo. Nunjucks is the successor to Swig. This question should be answered because the current Hexo Docs say that Swig is the default tempting language. https://hexo.io/docs/themes.html#layout

An alternative to Nunjucks may be liquid-node which may be better because Liquid is the default templating language for Jekyll.

[leesei]

I see a recent commit 35342cb to replace swig in creating post.
But swig renderer is still registered in the Hexo core, this is against to movement to modularize Hexo.
The default theme Landscape uses ejs, our setup teaches users to install external renderer. I think swig has served it's purpose and its time to say goodbye.

@tommy351, maybe we should announce swig renderer's deprecation and remove it altogether in the next release.

[Xuanwo]

Agree with @leesei too.

[chawyehsu]

Swig is dead. paularmstrong/swig@70a1c88

[NoahDragon]

Agree.

[dumindu]

Any update on this?

[NoahDragon]

@dumindu please check the status of PR #2903

[bibichuan]

Agree with @leesei too.Hexo-renderer-nunjucks on npm is also no longer maintained, I don't know why.

[stevenjoezhang]

The migration to Nunjucks is almost complete. The discussion can go here: #2903