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[โ€“] 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.

[โ€“] [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.