We really go for this in libguestfs, generating about 300,000 lines of C boilerp...

		rwmj on May 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Automatic programming: write code that writes code We really go for this in libguestfs, generating about 300,000 lines of C boilerplate (mainly bindings for languages, and RPC generation). We use about 20,000 lines of OCaml to do this. This has proved itself over and over again to have been a smart move. https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/e275786cb2bce7... `$ ./generator/generator generated 300518 lines of code`

FFTW takes a similar approach, generating huge gobs of specialized FFT code in C using an Ocaml program.