“The Pragmatic Programmer” admonished us all to “write code that writes code”: use code generators to increase productivity and avoid duplication. Today’s language communities have clearly caught on, as more and more frameworks generate code at compile time: AST Transforms, Project Lombok, Spring Roo, Contracts for Java, Spock, GContracts, Groovy++, and more.
This session reviews these approaches including examples of how and why we’d want to do this. Come see the newest Groovy language tools, look in-depth at production deployed AST Transforms, and view libraries based on these techniques.
Audience: developers searching for cutting edge solutions to increasing team velocity.