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You can't use compiler-macros to build cross-platform higher order abstractions, so I don't get why they come up. They're exactly as useful as any indirection f

You can't use compiler-macros to build cross-platform higher order abstractions, so I don't get why they come up. They're exactly as useful as any indirection facility. So why are they relevant here? Not that I like Python, mind you. I miss CL, but I wouldn't go back to it. My experience is that way too many of these beloved libraries have an audience of 1 or 2, sometimes a single company. If I'm going to engage with an environment like that, I'd rather do so to access the leading edge of research and compilation results like w/ Haskell. Even Racket is more desirable than CL on this scale. EDIT: I just wanna repeat I loathe python and carry no water for that standing wave of bad design decisions. Really. Seriously. Worst.

junke 9y ago
Not sure what you count as higher order abstractions, but lparallel, fset, cl-ppcre and other libraries make use of compiler macros; this is relevant w.r.t. efficiency.
- KirinDave 9y ago
  Haxl is modern. Ponylang's concurrency is modern. Rust's concurrency is modern. lparallel and fset's affordances are not. I'm not sure why a single threaded regular expression compiler is mentioned here. I'd have to check. Is fset even using the current standard (not the newest stuff) for immutable-friendly data structures? Last time I checked they had used a lot of older stuff from Okasaki's work and much of that has been improved upon substantially now. Even Clojure is out of date, compared to this year's innovations!