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Re: [cdt-dev] RFC: Templates preprocessor syntax proposal
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> On 05 Aug 2016, at 18:04, Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> ... Freemarker which probably does what you need.
hi Doug, thank you for the hint.
unfortunately Freemarker introduces yet another xml-like language, while I would like to keep my templates in C/C++, and be able to reformat them at any time.
not to mention that as a principle I find difficult to understand why would someone invent a new scripting language when there is JavaScript.
when you'll be back in office, please read the details of my proposal at http://xcdl.github.io/work/preprocessor/
actually I would like to move more functionality to JavaScript, like the main template.xml, which, in my wizards, already reached a complexity level that makes it almost impossible to manage.
here is, for example, the STM32F4 template:
https://github.com/gnuarmeclipse/plug-ins/blob/develop/ilg.gnuarmeclipse.templates.stm/templates/stm32f4xx_exe_c_project/template.xml
I need to do some experiments, but I guess that a JavaScript version of it would be significantly shorter and easier to read. performance shouldn't be an issue, templates are instantiated rarely.
as I said, I think that the future belongs to JSON and JavaScript.
regards,
Liviu
