They are useful for writing VM plugins for example. The generic part. On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Todd Blanchard <tblanch...@mac.com> wrote:
> My personal feeling on code generators is they are a bad code smell and > the desire to use them tends to imply that your programming language isn't > dynamic enough. > > That said I have used DNE on proto object proxies to capture messages sent > and generate handlers (I have used this on Morphic to try to figure out > what methods actually get called vs the ones that don't). > > I have also used this sort of thing to build a model that matches a > database schema. > > But I wouldn't typically make code generation a routine part of my > development process. > > > On Oct 17, 2016, at 22:24, Hernán Morales Durand < > hernan.mora...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I am writing a code generator, doing a few iterations right now. > > I want your opinion, which most useful thing would you like to be > generated automatically? It could be a pattern, an idiom, another > language... > > > > For example my own wish (roadmap) list: > > > > - A "settings framework" settings class generator. > > - A state machine generator (based in the excellent paper of Trevor P. > Hopkins) > > - A Spec UI generator. > > > > Let me know your thoughts. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Hernán > > > > > >
