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0 pointskmontrose11y ago0 comments

And? Presumably some of these packages get updated, handed off, or are collaborative in the first place. Re-generating is part of continuing development.

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misframer11y ago

Sure, but that's not specific to any language. Is it Go's fault that package writers work a certain way?

TheDong11y ago

Go encourages working in that way, so yes, it is.

With other languages, you might do code generation through powerful macros (e.g. as rust has) or some other tooling which is not literally just "run a program in the user's path".

kmontroseOP11y ago

My point is that `go generate` requires more than just source, and thus isn't "simpler" in the manner claimed in the article.

I'm not judging the existence of `go generate` or it's merits relative to some other environments. Except makefiles. Makefiles are worse.

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