Yes. I suspect this taming of complexity and severe uniqueness of each codebase with it’s clever “patches” applied through meta programming is why we have the m

Yes. I suspect this taming of complexity and severe uniqueness of each codebase with it’s clever “patches” applied through meta programming is why we have the meme of the lone Lisp programmer writing their dependencies from scratch. Having restrictions like types and no meta programming is less “fun” but the new person on the team will get up to speed more quickly. The one job where in C# actually they used a tonne of meta programming I could barely get anything done. Because of course the documentation is non existent and the codebase so big would take you years to comprehend, or trying to get some help from never-free team members. tldr KISS!