I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment. Metaprogramming is incredibly powerful, and has its place, but it generally comes down to 'defining your own langu

I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment. Metaprogramming is incredibly powerful, and has its place, but it generally comes down to 'defining your own language'. It cannot merely be Javascript any more: one must learn the idioms of your own personal language which Just Happens to run as Javascript. As a junior dev I used to make maximal use of every language and platform capability I could find. These days, I'd rather just stick to the idioms and conventions of the parent language, because I want neither to maintain a compiler nor teach our junior devs how to use My Custom Language. It's enough to know that those capabilities are there without playing with them constantly. Boring is simple and maintainable. Best to confine the interesting to the 'what' (which it'll infest anyway) rather than the 'how' (which can at least be kept under control).