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honey the codewitch

See, you're smarter than me because you're doing it for money. :-D

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W Balboos GHB

If you check my bio page[^], third paragraph, it clarifies you post (maybe?).

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Ron Anders

I wrote a grandiose control surface plug for Sonar (DAW) that would chain up to five BCR2000s across like a big old mixer but it took too long and the device targeted, and the concept, are obsolete so it's just an in house thing now that not even I use. Kept me off the streets and close to home.

honey the codewitch

Not to start DAW wars or anything but FL Studio lets you build dashes like that with no coding. Just sayin'

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charlieg

yeah going to up vote that :laugh:

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CodeWraith

Time for a proverb: Was der Bauer nicht kennt, frisst er nicht. Anyway, I need such tools rarely. I have always been writing libraries for and against everything. No need to generate anything when I can reuse stuff.

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honey the codewitch

It really depends on what you're doing though. For example, my parser generators almost always allow for a runtime parser, or a compiled parser. The latter uses code generation, and the result is faster. Libraries aren't always a replacement for code-gen. Code-gen is pretty specialized though so a lot of times people rarely need it.

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CodeWraith

Nice and well. Then generate a fast parser and stuff it into a library, along with other useful stuff. No more need to ever generate it again.

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Daniel Pfeffer

honey the codewitch wrote:

I've tried to simplify my project, and simplify describing that project but it's like trying to simplify Roslyn.

That's what a good technical writer is for. Explain to them what the tool does, and let them write the final documentation. IMO, having access to such resources is one of the advantages of working for a large company.

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honey the codewitch

I mean, that's fine, but something has to generate it in the first place.

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CodeWraith

Sometimes it's better not to get too lazy and use that stuff between the ears not only to keep them apart. :-)

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Mike Hankey

I create tools that I don't understand and don't use.

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Lost User

Make a store app. The stats make the reception somewhat more transparent. It also motivates you to keep making it better. New. Trending. Top Selling. etc. (I make it so no "help" is needed).

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Stefan_Lang

All the time! Except, most of the time even I don't use it, because either I find out an already existing, better solution, or it turns out that I wasn't able to really meet all of my own requirements. ;P Among the more complex tools were a pool implementation for C++ objects that would auto-garbage-collect unneeded memory blocks with an amortized complexity of O(1) for allocation and deallocation (including the garbage collection!). Or a lazy-evaluation point/vector/matrix implementation that would auto-optimize algebraic expressions at compile time. In both cases I eventually switched to easier solutions because I was reaching far beyond the actual requirements - but I still keep them in a drawer in case I find a use for them some time in the future ... ;)

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honey the codewitch

The reason for generation is not to save on thought. It's to save on bugs. Complex parsers like a C# parser for example, can be difficult even to test, much less develop. Being able to generate the tens of thousands of lines of code necessary to parse something like again, C#, from an input specification saves countless hours debugging and testing.

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honey the codewitch

I should note that Microsoft's documentation for Roslyn is currently trash :~

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Daniel Pfeffer

They must have fired the technical writers along with the QA department. :) :sigh:

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Ron Anders

What's a dashes?

honey the codewitch

midi controller dashboards for instruments. Panels you can control or link to other controllers. They have different ones for different instruments. At least i think you and i are talking about the same thing, but since we each use different DAWs (and FL is a bit weird) we may be using different jargon i've never actually described one before. :-\

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Ron Anders

Yeah. Sonar uses COM for it's control surface interface. Old code from the before times. :-D Works though.