One thing that plagues almost all API solutions where you have to generate code is that the vast majority of code generators are bad, and often the code they ge

One thing that plagues almost all API solutions where you have to generate code is that the vast majority of code generators are bad, and often the code they generate is ugly. I've never understood why so many code generators are so fiddly. They are supposed to parse text and produce text as output. You would think that it would be possible to do this without involving all manner of junk dependencies. It reminds me of what I refer to as "the most important slide in software engineering". It was a slide by Sterling Hughes (PHP, MyNewt etc) from a presentation I can no longer remember the details of. But the slide simply said "nobody cares if it works for you". In the sense that if you write code that other people are supposed to use, do make an effort to put yourself in their place. Sterling was probably 16-17 at the time, and worked as a paid intern where I worked. But despite his young age, he managed to express something that most of us will never fully take on board. Whenever I get an OpenAPI yaml file instead of a client library for some system I know things are going to be frustrating.