Haml is a syntactically simpler version of HTML that is much easier and faster to read and write. The main differences is that it uses whitespace instead of opening and closing tags to denote element hierarchy. Additionally, Haml includes shortcuts for a number of commonly used page elements. Sass does a similar thing for CSS development. It replaces curly braces with meaningful indentation and adds the concept of nested rules. Verb supports both Haml and Sass natively, and will compile and cache Haml and Sass files automatically. Just put .haml and .sass files in your webspace and Verb will do the right thing. Verb also has built-in support for the Compass CSS framework. Everyone on the Verb team is a big fan of Haml and Sass and we use them as much as possible when developing websites. The learning curve is incredibly easy; we find that most newbies can totally learn both Haml and Sass in less than an hour.
We think Haml is the coolest thing since sliced bread.
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