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[โ€“] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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