Manifold "inliner" tool

[marciodel]

Is there a plan to support something similar to Delombok? It would be good for projects using GWT, J2CL, JSweet, J2Objc, etc.

[rsmckinney]

Yes, after the first major release of Manifold there are plans to provide an "inliner" source-level tool for most of Manifold. For instance, extension features such as extension methods, type-safe reflection, and string interpolation can be straightforwardly inlined with standard, boilerplate source code. More advanced features involving type-safe metaprogramming (GraphQL, JSON Schema, SQL, etc.) will likely involve higher level changes e.g., execute Manifold as a conventional code generation step.

[rsmckinney]

Update

#181 (Android and Kotlin support) also provides the compile/runtime API divide necessary to implement this request. #181 is comping in the next release; I'll implement this soon after.