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Question: type provider to generate lenses

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Description

Description

If this RFC that allows type providers to generate types from types ever gets implements (its been marked as started for a few years now) would it be a useful thing to create a type provider that automatically generates lenses?

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Research direction

Read the linked RFC on type providers generating types from types first, then review this proposal in the context of FSharpPlus's lenses topic. Since no file, test, or entry point is named, done would require a documented feasibility decision and a concrete implementation scope.

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Assessment

Tech stack
fsharp
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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