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I'm looking at backbone.js and noticed that it supports various templating systems (they specifically refer to Mustache.js, Haml-js, and Eco, but I understand it can support even more)(like Pure and dust.js)

My question is really why are there so many of these? What makes one better or different to the others? Can anyone shed light on what their individual strengths and weaknesses are.

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Matter of preference, syntax and ease of use, functionalities provided (e.g. embedded JS execution or not etc.). It'll be very difficult to give a complete breakdown of all, but these are the dimensions of comparison IMHO – PhD Aug 23 '12 at 17:16

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Here's a link to a LinkedIN Article where they detail their comparison and present their results as well as why did they select what they did (dust.js). This should give you some fair idea about the comparisons and what people are most likely to look for in templating solutions on client side and what are their strengths/weaknesses in those areas.

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