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+# Cogs - Rust in HTML
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+Cogs is a fullstack framework for building HATEOAS-based web applications using a custom templating language that compiles directly to highly-optimized Rust code.
+
+[HTMX](https://htmx.org/) is recommended alongside Cogs as the frontend piece of the HATEOAS stack.
+
+## Roadmap
+
+- [ ] Basic syntax and parsing
+- [ ] Code generation
+- [ ] (?) Custom codegen based HTMX alternative
+- [ ] (?) WASM-based "Client Components"
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+# Syntax
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+TODO