Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ilyt 1053 days ago
> For instance generating libraries from .proto files (or other declarative schema definition solutions) works really well.

...does it ? Generated ones always feel being mismatched with the language paradigms. Maybe that's just my nightmares of dealing with MS Graph generated vomit hose of a library...
1 comments
sanderjd 1053 days ago
Sure, that's true, I'm a heavy user of the standard protobuf library in python, and you certainly won't catch me singing its praises for its style.

But that's a different (and less important) kind of problem. It does not exhibit the huge issue with generated-and-then-modified code where you have to maintain all the generated code rather than just the source from which it was generated.

link
ilyt 1049 days ago
It's trading wasting time by few developers manually writing client, for wasting time of tens of thousands of developers that use said client that doesn't fit language well.

It is IMO very bad tradeoff.

link