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?

  • Corbin@programming.devEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I use Nix. Or, rather, I use traditional tools like sed and awk and python, along with newer tools like jq so that I can store tables in JSON, and I call those tools from Nix builders. For example, this flake builds a book in several stages, starting by generating DOT from diagrams, then feeding some JSON tables via jq into Python scripts (replacing older awk scripts) to generate some Markdown tables and Metamath axioms, and finally calling mdbook and metamath to build the HTML for the book.