Shopify/liquid
View on GitHub ↗ ★ 11,915 Ruby
Liquid markup language. Safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.
11 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 3 stories, 8 comments · first 2017-04-17 · latest 2026-05-27
20082026
-
The CEO of Shopify is filing PRs against their public repos: https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/pull/2056 (To be fair, he did build liquid and much of Shopify himself at the start of the company so he's not exactly inexperienced, but still.)
comment by simonw · 2026-05-27 · in The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon -
…to optimize the Liquid template engine, and found a 53% speedup after ~120 experiments: https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/pull/2056 I wrote up some more notes on that here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/13/liquid/
comment by simonw · 2026-03-23 · in Autoresearch on an old research idea -
…>With GC consuming 74% of total CPU time I guess there is still plenty of room for improvement. [1] https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/pull/2056
comment by ksec · 2026-03-16 · in Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke Against Liquid, Shopify's OSS Ruby Template Engine -
…my own benchmark here, the numbers aren't run through an LLM they're right there in the JSONL file: https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/blob/3182b7c1b3758b0f5fe2d...
comment by simonw · 2026-03-14 · in Grief and the AI split -
…boost on a 20+ year old codebase by running a bunch of experiments is pretty exciting to me: https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/pull/2056
comment by simonw · 2026-03-13 · in Grief and the AI split -
…[2] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer [3] https://rubygems.org/gems/wasmer [4] https://github.com/Shopify/liquid
comment by tess0r · 2020-08-16 · in WebAssembly without the browser -
…to Rails open source ecosystem with projects like Liquid and ActiveMerchant, which he started: - https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/commits?author=tobi - https://github.com/activemerchant/active_merchant/commits?au... We leverage these…
comment by lunaru · 2019-08-24 · in Now Bigger Than eBay, Shopify Sets Its Sights on Amazon -
…handlebars (GRMustache) would be the right way to go. [1] https://github.com/groue/GRMustache [2] https://github.com/Shopify/liquid
comment by nathan_f77 · 2017-04-17 · in PHP 7 Virtual Machine