symfony style admin/backend generator

[eluser]Crafter[/eluser]
Although I'm not quite sure what Thoer is saying, I'm tending to disagree with that point of view.

Code generation is a developer tool. It is linked directly to the level of effort the developer has to put in to provide the applications functionality. Having thousands using your application and having the best hardware is about optimising the user experience.

Both (the development process and user experience) are important aspects of development, and as thepyromaniac suggsted, there are two aspects to the development process. The development-time-code approach (like my own CodeCrafter) provides code that you use to build the functionality, and the run-time approach, like scaffalding and Rapyd that provide the applications parameters at development time and then generates and executes code segments as the application is running.

Choosing a type of code generation (or any code generation at all) is a matter how how much abstraction you are willing to release during the development process. For example, you might choose to write a driver to read from the database server, or you could use a provided database function, Likeiwise, you could choose to handcraft your code or get the tedious, repetitive stuff written for you.

Whichever way you adopt, its all about the user experience at the end of the day. I'm a developer, and to me a paying customer is what turns me on. A paying customer is a satisfied customer, so to me the development process is about satisfying the customer requirements. So I try and make pretty sure I get that right.