What's your preferred code generation tool in 2024? (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago by Cyno@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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To clarify, I mean writing scripts that generate or modify classes for you instead of manually writing them every time, for example if you want to replace reflection with a ton of verbose repetitive code for performance reasons I guess?

My only experience with this is just plain old manual txt generation with something like python, and maintaining legacy t4/tt VS files but those are kind of a nightmare.

What's a good modern way of accomplishing this, have there been any improvements in this area?

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[-] monomon@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago

Lisp macros.

But I'd be curious of the possibilities of generating code with tree sitter.

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Never tried lisp, it's always been on my "as soon as I have an excuse to learn it" list (alongside haskell). What makes it adapted to this use case?

For this problem I'd usually go python + jinja but I cannot say I like the experience.

[-] monomon@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Both languages you mentioned i highly recommend.

Lisp macros are another level, because they are part of the language - you can use all language primitives to transform forms however you like.

Haskell will give you a different view of programming. It's beautiful and concise, and implements all sorts of academic research in languages. Ocaml is similar in many respects.

[-] monomon@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Just thought of an example. If you want to, you can open a file at macroexpansion time, and generate code based on its contents. There are no limits, pretty much.

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