Yeah, that's a fair assessment - compile time code generation is unnecessarily painful in many popular languages. Often even if there is a facility for it built

Yeah, that's a fair assessment - compile time code generation is unnecessarily painful in many popular languages. Often even if there is a facility for it built in (e.g. C preprocessor macros, C++ templates), it's less powerful and more complex than it needs to be because the designers of the language for some reason decided not to just let you use the same language at compile time that you use at runtime.