<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@lenary" class="u-url mention">@<span>lenary</span></a></span> i do, but i don't want it to have its own quirky toolchain that nobody makes good devtools for, and i especially don't want it to generate code in an opaque build system</p><p>right now i'm working on a heavily pattern matching oriented compiler in rust and the most i've accepted is using macro-by-example (if you're unfamiliar, a slightly-above-regex flexibility and power language over token streams / partial ASTs)</p><p>not building a procedural macro that generates code is a direct goal</p>
