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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hm, I'm currently working on a project with a ton of runtime-configurable plug-ins and dependencies between them. All of that is held together with a copious amount of black QMetaObject magic. I had the same thought about it, but I'm not sure how you'd get similar functionality without reflection and not making it even more convoluted and fragile...

[–] xmunk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Metaprogramming is extremely useful for long term code readability. What you're doing is probably fine but we can't really evaluate that without seeing the actual code.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That's why I stopped writing code and started writing ASTs and AST transformers that can be configured to emit libraries.