I probably shouldn’t let it deter me from learning the language but what you’ve said exactly describes the feeling I got when a coworker was telling me about hi

I probably shouldn’t let it deter me from learning the language but what you’ve said exactly describes the feeling I got when a coworker was telling me about his experience with it. Apparently there’s a way to have code execute at compile time (as an alternative to preprocessor macros I guess) and there’s some API in the compiler that either lets you change the grammar or interact with the AST in some way. This guy was using it to add something to the syntax (I think) to make something easier. It sounded awesome (this guy was always doing some of the neatest stuff for fun) but my immediate thought was “now you can’t really be sure other parts of the code aren’t doing this and that severly limits the assumptions you can make about code you’re interacting with.” I probably should play with it anyway since they certainly have some neat ideas but some of the complexity the language allows sounds really bad for larger projects.