Thanks for sharing all these awesome ideas. I can't say I know enough about NLP to evaluate how feasible some of your speech to code ideas are, but I do think Optic is a great base to any project trying to do meta-coding.
I'd love to see a 2-way code generator built on Optic for a simple crud builder like you describe. It could let people choose the libraries they want to use from the list and design their schemas, routes and queries at some higher level of abstraction. Unlike the current generator tool you could actually make changes to the high level models and get Optic to update the underlying code for you even after you make changes.
That whole field could be huge and I think Optic's major contribution will be abstracting away all the dirtiness of code gen. People who build this next generation of tools could interact purely with Swagger-like-JSON.
Is this something you'd be interested in collaborating on?
I think ordinary NLP wouldn't get you very far at all, but it seems the Google Duplex people have some advanced tricks. But its still probably a bit of a stretch.
A two-way code generator for CRUD applications is a lot more realistic for a start. I am interested in trying to collaborate on that, although I can't promise how much time I will have because of other obligations.
But it would be fun to give it a start at least. You started describing something, maybe if you want you could elaborate a little bit more about how you think this type of tool would work in a document online somewhere or just in a reply. It would be fun to play around with Optic with that type of goal. I will need to read the docs and experiment some to make sure I understand the system better before I get too far along in coding something. Mainly I use Node and JavaScript these days so theoretically that could work for a web-based CRUD builder.. I guess by talking to the Scala server over REST? I will need to read your docs.
Optic React / JS for all its GUIs. We’re planning to have microeditors that pop up and help you work with specific kinds of code so this might just run from within Optic somehow.
All fun ideas to brainstorm. Let’s take it offline. Email me at aidan@useoptic.com
I'd love to see a 2-way code generator built on Optic for a simple crud builder like you describe. It could let people choose the libraries they want to use from the list and design their schemas, routes and queries at some higher level of abstraction. Unlike the current generator tool you could actually make changes to the high level models and get Optic to update the underlying code for you even after you make changes.
That whole field could be huge and I think Optic's major contribution will be abstracting away all the dirtiness of code gen. People who build this next generation of tools could interact purely with Swagger-like-JSON.
Is this something you'd be interested in collaborating on?