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		jfkebwjsbx on July 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go generics may use square brackets [] not parenth... There is nothing wrong with code generation, what do you mean by "or worse"?

centril on July 17, 2020 [–]

Off the top of my head: Poor error messages, any type checking is run on the generated code so harder to enforce properties, and if code generation is not in-language, then the base logic can diverge for different types, which is bad when you find bugs.

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