Generate the Code

We have prototyped this twice and we are not going to ship it. Here is the honest reason rather than a vague one.

A design file knows what something looks like. It does not know what the component is called in your codebase, which of your primitives it should be built from, what it does when the data is empty, or which of those forty pixel values is a real decision and which is a nudge somebody made at five o'clock. The code that comes out is plausible, ignores your design system, and takes longer to correct than to write. Both of our prototypes were faster to throw away.

What we are doing instead is the part that is actually true: spacing and colour handed over as your tokens rather than as numbers, so the translation step that goes wrong is gone. That is in progress now.