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I’ve just been using HandlebarsTemplates in <https://youtu.be/MxzAr4UBOs0>. Which leads me to ask the question, why does there need to be a ViewModel type?

There's not much to it apart from being able to set the name of the template file used when rendering. 

Aka Seemed like a reasonable idea at the time...

It’s just a bit of a pain to have to extend a type when I could be using Map

and maybe telling you where to find the template 

Can you do something with a generic instance, a map Val and a delegate?

Now I know there’s nothing intrinsic I’ll look at how to fudge it 

It seems to be putting the cart before the horse, but is this too horrible?

```fun &lt;K, V&gt; Map&lt;K, V&gt;.asViewModel(template: String): ViewModel = object: ViewModel, Map&lt;K, V&gt; by this@asViewModel {
    override fun template() = template
}```


Seems like something I might do. :wink: Whatever works for you! 