Using Jade client-side with Backbone.js

[Vincent Mac]

I was wondering if anybody had any thoughts about using Jade as the client-side templating language with Backbone.  I've started familiarizing myself with Backbone and haven't seen much mention of Jade.  Is there any particular reason why it is not being utilized for this?  

Are there any performance drawbacks to using Jade vs Underscore.js or Handlebars.js?  Or is the lack of mention purely due to the volume of Rails developers who are perhaps already familiar with Handlebars?

[Bobby]

Every thing went ok until I tested it in ie. It was 2 about a month ago so I forget the specifics but If I remember jade uses variable names that caused ie to choke. There were tickets for the problems on github. It sucked for me because i was about to hand over a website and then I had to go back and rewrite all the templates.

[tjholowaychuk]

personal preference really, that's why we have 50+ template engines out there.

[Vincent Mac]

TJ, out of curiosity, what do you use?

[tjholowaychuk]

mix of things depending on the project. For bigger projects that I know would

have many templates I'd go with Jade, for smaller ones I like some of the little

django/mustache-like engines, or for things like Kue etc that really dont 

need much I just use the dom, which is more often than not haha. So in many

cases no template engine at all just a .render() method