Metaprogramming is wonderful if you need it, but it's so easy to make a real mess. My experience has been that whenever I create new abstractions beyond just w

Metaprogramming is wonderful if you need it, but it's so easy to make a real mess. My experience has been that whenever I create new abstractions beyond just writing a class or a function, everyone asks why I didn't just do some much easier hard coded solution. I then maintain the metaprogramming based solution for a while on my own because nobody else wants to touch it. Then I get tired of it, rip it out however I can, and realize they were right all along... I try not to do that cycle outside of toy projects!