Sure, that's orthogonal. If you wrap the generator in your build system and still always regenerate, it's effectively the same. And also, I think, not what GP was talking about
Pedantic. There's a world of difference between grokking a new code generation DSL+codebase and a shell one-liner that fixes a string that is obviously invalid.
Since the issue is the maintenance of such systems, it is absolutely relevant.
Since the issue is the maintenance of such systems, it is absolutely relevant.