experiment inferring TS types from a JS template

src/infer.ts

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+/**
+ * Idea: instead of writing TypeScript, and inferring the JS-pocomath signature
+ * from TS that via a TypeScript plugin, we can maybe do this the other way
+ * around: take the JS-pocomath signature as base (and source of truth), and
+ * infer TypeScript interfaces from that using infer in template literal types.
+ */
+
+type T = {} // TODO: how to do generics?
+
+const create = createFactory<{
+    number: number
+    bigint: bigint
+    T: T // TODO: how to do generics?
+    'Complex<T>': unknown  // TODO: how to do generics?
+}>()
+
+
+// TODO: how to pass config?
+// FIXME: multiple signatures do not work
+
+const createSquare = create({
+        multiply: '(number, number) : number',
+        // zero: '(number) : number'
+    },dep => {
+        return (x: number) => dep.multiply(x, x)
+    }
+)
+
+// the code works in JS, and works in TS
+const multiply = (a: number, b: number) => a * b
+const square = createSquare({ multiply })
+console.log('square', square(8)) // 64
+
+function createFactory<BaseTypes extends Record<string, unknown>>() {
+    type K = string & keyof BaseTypes
+
+    type ResolveType<T extends K> = BaseTypes[T]
+
+    type ResolveTuple<T> =
+        T extends K ? [ResolveType<T>] :
+            T extends `${infer L extends K}, ${infer M extends K}` ? [ResolveType<L>, ResolveType<M>] :
+                T extends `${infer L extends K}, ${infer M extends K}, ${infer N extends K}`
+                    ? [ResolveType<L>, ResolveType<M>, ResolveType<N>]
+                    : never
+
+    type ResolveFunction<T> =
+        T extends `${infer Name}(${infer Args}) : ${infer L extends K}`
+            ? (...args: ResolveTuple<Args>) => ResolveType<L>
+            : never
+
+    return function create<T extends string, U extends string, V>(
+        dependencies: { [L in T]: U },
+        callback: (deps: { [L in T]: ResolveFunction<U> }) => V
+    ) {
+        return callback
+    }
+}