jan kili (Mar 24 2022 at 01:15): jan kili (Mar 24 2022 at 01:15):Inspired by a current thread on ECS complexities in Roc, I wonder... How common will it be in Roc appdev to encounter platform-agnostic overhead that can't be alleviated by a zero-cost abstraction library? If common, should we invest in a first-party (or third-party) codegen tool to help generate boilerplate/scaffolding for various patterns?
Tommy Graves (Mar 24 2022 at 02:16):I suspect a lot of “polymorphic” problems will be best solved via code generators. With the editor, those should be able to look almost like macros — the editor can surface a button to generate some boilerplate specific code from a general template based on some configuration.
E.g. I’ve been thinking about a query builder library and one example is defining the columns of a table and its relationships in a data structure, at which point the editor would auto generate a bunch of various querying functions for that table
Brendan Hansknecht (Mar 24 2022 at 03:09):I would love to see this integrated in the editor in a sane well formed way. That would be really awesome.
Would also be cool if it was integrated in the language like rust macros, but I 100% understand if that is beyond the scope of the language.
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