Repeating Yourself Thrice Doesn’t Turn You into a 3x Developer

Re:Repeating Yourself Thrice Doesn’t Turn You into a 3x Deve... by lovasoa on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:42PM (#36933843)

I loved the idea of code generation when I first encountered it, but I've since come to hate it.

A large code base that was auto-generated and then subtly modified in some places is hard to refactor, and if you need to change the signature of a function that is used thousands of time across the generated code, you are in for a long ride.

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Re:Repeating Yourself Thrice Doesn’t Turn You into a 3x Deve... by dgb23 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:46PM (#36933889)

Yes it’s easy to go overboard with it. I don’t have a clear recipe for which parts it makes sense, except that it emerges from hand written code.

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Re:Repeating Yourself Thrice Doesn’t Turn You into a 3x Deve... by deterministic on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:58AM (#36938959)

There is an art to writing good code generators. Bad code generators are really really bad. Good code generators are absolutely awesome! I have saved thousands of hours using my own code generators. But I have also seen very bad code generators in the wild that I wouldn’t recommend using.

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