As Handelbars is the default templating layer for Meteor.js, is it readily possible to use Slim instead?
If so (meaning, without an extreme amount of hacking) how would one integrate this?
UPDATE: looks like this may be starting to be a real possibility with OpalRB since we're seeing some promising effort such as https://github.com/marcandre/meteor-opal.
Slim is a Ruby based templating engine; bludgeoning that into Meteor is probably not worth the effort. Take a look at Jade (a port of haml/slim style templating to JavaScript); it looks like there are beginnings of support for that: