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Which features make it the most advanced?
by pepper_sauce 7y ago
Which features make it the most advanced?
- YorkshireSeason 7y agoCompile-time MP and run-time MP. Support for AST and quasi-quote MP, and support for LMS (= lightweight modular staging).
- TeMPOraL 7y agoYou haven't seen any Lisp yet, have you? Compile and run-time MP and quasiquoting are basic features; I'd argue that a language without these doesn't even qualify as "supporting metaprogramming".
- YorkshireSeason 7y agoSure, I'm intimately familiar with the Lisp family of languages. It lacks features that I prefer in a modern meta-programming language, in particular an expressive typing system with type inference, and a platform / eco-system like the JVM.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI stand corrected, and I agree with you here on both accounts - I'd love if CL in particular had a better type system standardized (current one sits in a kind of uncanny valley) and a better ecosystem. CL implementations are solid, but the mindshare unfortunately isn't there anymore.
- pepper_sauce 7y agoCool, I wasn't aware of Scala's LMS. Thanks for sharing!