Even there I feel like code generators are just a band aid around the fact that metaprogramming facilities suck. If you would never modify the generated code wh

Even there I feel like code generators are just a band aid around the fact that metaprogramming facilities suck. If you would never modify the generated code why generate in the first place. You could argue that stack traces are easier to follow but TBH generated code is rarely pretty in that regard as well. For example I think F# idea of type providers > code generators.