I still make a living writing ruby every day, but the meta-programming is easily the part I like the least, and that I try to avoid at every opportunity (which

I still make a living writing ruby every day, but the meta-programming is easily the part I like the least, and that I try to avoid at every opportunity (which thankfully, if you're not trying to write a framework, is all the time). I'm sure I'm benefiting from using frameworks that use meta-programming to great effect, or that there's patterns, conveniences and ergonomics that are hard to achieve without them. But I still tend to lump it in the same category as C++ templates, raw assembly and manual thread synchronization - I'm glad it's there for the chosen few to do great things that we can all benefit from, but most of us should stay the hell away from it for our own sanity's sake, if there's any reasonable alternative at all.