Twig help or hindrance

What do you guys think of twig/ template libraries?

Are they a help or hindrance to you workflow?

The reason I ask is because I'm working on a CMS and getting to a point where I might need to use PHP and some of codeigniter's useful functions. I know you can load CI functions into twig but you might want to do more.

Is a cleaner syntax worth the hassle?

What do you think?


<?= $variable ?> is so much worse than {{variable}}

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