- Xslate is a template engine for Perl5 that is written in C using XS. It aims to be fast, safe from XSS attacks, and support multiple template syntaxes including Kolon and TTerse. - Xslate templates are first preprocessed, parsed into an AST, compiled into bytecode, and then executed by a virtual machine for high performance. Automatic HTML escaping also helps prevent XSS issues. - Future goals i