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		baxuz on July 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TypeScript please give us reflection/runtime types I'm not sure what `generateTypeInfo!<Foo>();` is supposed to be, but as far as I'm aware there is no way to execute anything in a JS engine from a type generic.

__jem on July 7, 2023 [–]

It's meant to represent a hypothetical TS compiler builtin that does codegen for you.

baxuz on July 8, 2023 | [–]

Ah, yeah I get it.

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