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Unpopular opinion: If such a tool is useful for you, you are doing something wrong. There is maybe a valid exception for use cases that intentionally create pro

Unpopular opinion: If such a tool is useful for you, you are doing something wrong. There is maybe a valid exception for use cases that intentionally create projects that require manual work (university and other trainings), but generally if you spend time by creating the same folder structure over and over again, you're probably working at the wrong level of abstraction. (And if you are creating so many micro services: please stop!)

capableweb 3y ago
Or, you just happen to create a lot of directories that are similar? Nothing wrong with that. I don't think your opinion is "unpopular" but more making unfair assumptions about situations you imagine others to use it, while there is more situations a tool like this could be useful for.
rewmie 3y ago
I don't agree. Setting up a brand new project always requires boilerplate code. Either you waste time manually filling in all that boilerplate, or you just create everything from scratch with a helper command. Microsoft recognized this need by updating its .NET CLI to create projects based on project templates. I know for a fact that at least one FANG has a couple of internal tools to create projects and CICD infrastructure from scratch using project templates.
- choeger 3y ago
  There are two cases where such a tool could be useful: 1. You have no clue about what "boilerplate" is required or why. 2. You know what's required but you need to generate the boilerplate often. In the first case, just stop. Using a tool might give you some kind of result, but the quality of what you do is already subpar from the beginning. Learn your effing tools. In the second case, stop, too. Work with a higher abstraction layer, instead. > I know for a fact that at least one FANG has a couple of internal tools to create projects and CICD infrastructure from scratch using project templates. Imagine what that means for the ICs in that FANG: They don't know why the boilerplate is what it is or what part they could or should replace with something more modern .
- jasfi 3y ago
  I typically rely on the framework to have a tool to do this. When I wrote my own framework, Nexus (for Nim), I wrote a CLI for this sort of thing. It uses variables in naming things, and is quite specialized. I don't think I could use a generic tool.

capableweb 3y ago

Or, you just happen to create a lot of directories that are similar? Nothing wrong with that. I don't think your opinion is "unpopular" but more making unfair assumptions about situations you imagine others to use it, while there is more situations a tool like this could be useful for.

rewmie 3y ago

I don't agree. Setting up a brand new project always requires boilerplate code. Either you waste time manually filling in all that boilerplate, or you just create everything from scratch with a helper command. Microsoft recognized this need by updating its .NET CLI to create projects based on project templates. I know for a fact that at least one FANG has a couple of internal tools to create projects and CICD infrastructure from scratch using project templates.

choeger 3y ago
There are two cases where such a tool could be useful: 1. You have no clue about what "boilerplate" is required or why. 2. You know what's required but you need to generate the boilerplate often. In the first case, just stop. Using a tool might give you some kind of result, but the quality of what you do is already subpar from the beginning. Learn your effing tools. In the second case, stop, too. Work with a higher abstraction layer, instead. > I know for a fact that at least one FANG has a couple of internal tools to create projects and CICD infrastructure from scratch using project templates. Imagine what that means for the ICs in that FANG: They don't know why the boilerplate is what it is or what part they could or should replace with something more modern .
jasfi 3y ago
I typically rely on the framework to have a tool to do this. When I wrote my own framework, Nexus (for Nim), I wrote a CLI for this sort of thing. It uses variables in naming things, and is quite specialized. I don't think I could use a generic tool.