> Once someone starts doing advanced meta programming, get the shovel, because you’re going to kill whoever wrote it and need to bury the body. Metaprogramming

> Once someone starts doing advanced meta programming, get the shovel, because you’re going to kill whoever wrote it and need to bury the body. Metaprogramming in application code is one of those trends I'm glad is behind us. Might look cool and work great initially, but a painful refactor is near inevitable once there's been some turnover on the team and the problem space shifts in a way that invalidates the underlying assumptions. Library code is another matter though.