This sounds like a good idea in some contexts. I like the fact that you can merely alter the tables in the database, then regen the app. But, the key to bigtop is that it leaves hand written code alone in such cases. While some apps are just database front ends, almost all of ours do at least a little bit more than that. So, they have custom code. With bigtop, we can regenerate to take new data model changes into generated code, without overwriting custom code. (Of course, we have to revisit hand written code, to make it reflect the updated data model. But regenerating leaves that code undisturbed.)

Phil

In reply to Re^2: Introducing the Bigtop Web App Language by philcrow
in thread Introducing the Bigtop Web App Language by philcrow

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