[SUGGESTION] Code generation tool

[gcarreno]

Hey Ikel (@ikelaiah),

While I'm at it, in the suggestion wave, I would like to ask you if it would make sense to also have a code generation tool.

This stems from the fact that cobra has a rather simple CLI side project ( cobra-cli ) that generates code for any command and sub-commands.

This would be the perfect opportunity to explore the template package. It's something that I still need to better grasp, and looking at someone else's work/example is always a good way to understand it better.

I'm not quite sure if this is even possible, since the way a Go folder structure is done doesn't really translate to Free Pascal's way of doing it.

I'll leave you to ponder on these things!!

EDIT
I've had a bit more thought about this and I think I'm a bit to boxed in the cobra way of doing it. Maybe a Lazarus package that hooks up to the File->New... would be more in sync with the Free Pascal crowd... Dunno 🤷 The ball is in your court!! 🥰

Cheers,
Gus

PS:
With the colour feature, I must say that this is already above and beyond cobra.
I was thinking of suggesting adding a very simple logging system, but I'm not sure if this would be a bit of a feature creep.

[ikelaiah]

@gcarreno , that's a brilliant idea. I didn't know cobra has such interesting features. This would be useful to have, to shorten development time. I'll plan for this also. Not sure how things work on Lazarus front, but if I could get one working on cli, that's a nice start I think.

Abouta logging system, I attempted one. Not entirely happy with it. I'll put it up on github once I get a chance to do clean up.

[gcarreno]

Hey Ikel(@ikelaiah),

You can start the CLI one, and if I have some time, I'll investigate the Lazarus plugin.
I've been wanting to make a hook to the File->New.. for a long time, so this may be the thing that pushes me!!

And, please, take your time for the logging system. Like I said above, it's maybe a feature creep. And I'll be quite happy to look at yet another logging system (YALS) 😉

Cheers,
Gus

[ikelaiah]

@gcarreno , I have not forgotten about this, and been thinking about how to make this cli-fp easier to use.