> The power of the typescript toolchain is that a macro framework like ts-macros can be a package and doesnt have to be part of the core language. Lisp can do

> The power of the typescript toolchain is that a macro framework like ts-macros can be a package and doesnt have to be part of the core language. Lisp can do the same, but macros are so central, that everyone uses it including the core of the language itself and anything written on top. It's not optional, since syntactic meta-programming is one of the core features of Lisp.