Facebook releases software that creates more software
Facebook released as open source a library it uses to generate code, providing a way for outside programmers to automate some of the routine work they do when creating large programs.
"Developers outside of Facebook can use this tool to raise the level of abstraction in their code and build more powerful frameworks," wrote Alejandro Marcu, a software engineer at Facebook, about CodeGen, in an e-mail.
Frameworks have been immensely valuable in software development because they save time in developing a new application by streamlining many of the low-level implementation chores. For instance, the Ruby-On-Rails framework proved to be immensely popular for quickly setting up Web applications.
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