This is a powerful idea! If I understand Monocle's use case, JS has similar AST parsing and code generation tools that are used broadly. There may be some ideas

This is a powerful idea! If I understand Monocle's use case, JS has similar AST parsing and code generation tools that are used broadly. There may be some ideas to learn from that community. JS AST specs: estree [0] and babel's AST [1] Parsers: babel [2], acorn [3], or espree [4] Transformers: babel, recast [5], or jscodeshift [6] Codegen: babel or escodegen [7] [0] https://github.com/estree/estree https://github.com/estree/estree [1] https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-parser#output https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-parser#output [2] https://github.com/babel/babel https://github.com/babel/babel [3] https://github.com/acornjs/acorn https://github.com/acornjs/acorn [4] https://github.com/eslint/espree https://github.com/eslint/espree [5] https://github.com/benjamn/recast https://github.com/benjamn/recast [6] https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift [7] https://github.com/estools/escodegen https://github.com/estools/escodegen