> I want to use "macros" aggressively which might get the code size reasonable but I'm sure people would struggle to understand it.
A long time ago I wrote a macro language for the environment I was working in and had grand plans to simplify the dev process quite a bit.
While it did work from one perspective, I was able to generate code much much faster for the use cases I was targeting. But the downside was that it was too abstract to follow easily.
It required simulating the macro system in the mind when looking at code to figure out whether it was generating an apple or an orange. I realized there is a limit to the usability of extremely generalized abstraction.
EDIT: I just remembered my additional thought back then was that a person that is really an expert in the macro language and the macros created could support+maintain the macro based code generation system.
So the dev wouldn't be expected to be the maintainer of the underlying macro system, they would just be using the systems templates+macros to generate code, which would give them significant power+speed. But it's also then a one-off language that nobody else knows and that the dev can't transfer to next job.
A long time ago I wrote a macro language for the environment I was working in and had grand plans to simplify the dev process quite a bit.
While it did work from one perspective, I was able to generate code much much faster for the use cases I was targeting. But the downside was that it was too abstract to follow easily.
It required simulating the macro system in the mind when looking at code to figure out whether it was generating an apple or an orange. I realized there is a limit to the usability of extremely generalized abstraction.
EDIT: I just remembered my additional thought back then was that a person that is really an expert in the macro language and the macros created could support+maintain the macro based code generation system.
So the dev wouldn't be expected to be the maintainer of the underlying macro system, they would just be using the systems templates+macros to generate code, which would give them significant power+speed. But it's also then a one-off language that nobody else knows and that the dev can't transfer to next job.