# The state of tooling

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**Created:** [May 5, 2024, 10:17am UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/the-state-of-tooling/831 "2024-05-05T10:17:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://forum.ada-lang.io/user_avatar/forum.ada-lang.io/lucretia/32/17_2.png) [@Lucretia](https://forum.ada-lang.io/u/Lucretia)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/the-state-of-tooling/831/36 "2024-05-16T13:18:02Z")

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Seems the ARG has discussed [reflection](http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ai12s/ai12-0255-1.txt?rev=1.2) which would solve part of my issues. A way not mentioned in the AI is opening the compiler to the programmer.

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