December 2021 – Development Log

Introducing the Software Factory

I’ve been providing bits and pieces of information about the Software Factory and what it does in my previous posts. I’ve stated that it is used to generate the entire system, but I’ve been quite vague about how this is done. In this post, I will start laying out how it works. What is inContinue reading “Introducing the Software Factory”

The project

In my previous post, I briefly introduced my vision of code generation and that I intend to scale code generation to build entire systems and applications. To achieve that, I needed a tool that specializes in generating code. At the time, there were few options. Whatever I could find was either too expensive, did notContinue reading “The project”

Code that writes code?

Code generation comes in many forms, shapes, and formats. Most of us already use code generation, often daily. Code is generated whenever you type “dotnet new …” or “ng generate …” or many other command-line tools. Or when Entity Framework requests data from a database, a SQL query is generated and then executed. Some codeContinue reading “Code that writes code?”