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?
I use Nix. Or, rather, I use traditional tools like
sed
andawk
andpython
, along with newer tools likejq
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 viajq
into Python scripts (replacing olderawk
scripts) to generate some Markdown tables and Metamath axioms, and finally callingmdbook
andmetamath
to build the HTML for the book.