Metaprogramming Risks: Hidden Dangers In Dynamic Code
Metaprogramming may look neat but causes development slowdowns & financial problems due to cryptic code, indirect dependencies & hard-to-find bugs.
Do you know that metaprogramming is easy to add but hard to support? Developers underestimated risks related to using metaprogramming in the code, which causes development slowdowns and business financial problems. TL;DR: Cryptic code and indirect dependencies make development unstable and slow Appearances can be deceptive. Metaprogramming and dynamically generated code look like neat solutions which dramatically compress code, but there is a shadow part to it. I assembled the most common problems, which were missing from the consideration, and were reasons for the stressful weeks for the wh...