Yeah but I was talking more about discrete generators at various steps
in the tool-chain and at runtime, not just a compiler.

On Jun 4, 10:42 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> Java --(javac)--> ByteCode --(hotspot)--> Native
>
> Byte"Code" is not a misnomer, code generation has been common for years
>
> Yes, it's common, and it's mainstream
>
> On 4 June 2010 21:34, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Of course we've always had code generation and scaffolding tools, but
> > I get the feeling that it's gaining popularly and breaking into the
> > mainstream (i.e. not just Groovy, Rails etc.).
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> > GWT uses generation to the extreme for obvious reasons, Lombok uses
> > generation to make up for stale language evolution, Spring has always
> > been into low-level AOP kind of things, but their latest Roo framework
> > seems to embrace generation even further.
>
> > So is this a general tendency all around, code generation becoming
> > mainstream? I've traditionally feared the day I can't do full round-
> > trip engineering in plain view but depend on magic generators and
> > IDE's (perhaps due to experiences with JDeveloper and the ADF
> > framework). Is this a good thing or a symptom of inferior languages
> > and lack of expressibility?
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