Maybe stpl or markup could work for you. To me, they seem more in line with your code snippet (haven't used either unfortunately): https://github.com/dpc/stpl https://github.com/utkarshkukreti/markup.rs As far as i know/ understand, Askama always expects a template source that is effectively not Rust code (see https://djc.github.io/askama/creating_templates.html#the-template-attribute)