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[โ€“] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months 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€“] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

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