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by ageitgey 1287 days ago
Another problem with code generation is that maybe you want React code, I want static html, someone else wants Vue.js code, etc. There isn't a single standard target that everyone agrees on and the frontend landscape change so frequently that it would be hard to keep up.

A lot of times you also have a page template framework in your app with a reusable header, footer, etc, and are really just designing the content of a page. It's difficult for generated code to slip cleanly in to an existing page framework in a way that doesn't take more time to rework than to just write yourself.

I'm not saying these are unsolvable problems, but it just makes it hard for a code generation product like this to find a single big enough addressable market to be exciting.