Thanks for pinging this thread back into view. The possibility that helpers generation goes away also impacts localized route generation and localized helpers.
Both @BartOtten’s phoenix_localized_routes and my own ex_cldr_routes use helpers to generate routes at runtime to reflect the locale in effect at the time. This cannot be parsed at compile time because at that time the locale is not known.
Localized routes have the same helper name and same path structure but have path components translated (and may have locale components interpolated).
For that reason alone I hope that Helper generation can have a more definitive future.
