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by kkylin 3044 days ago
Julia is homoiconic but has much more complex syntax than Lisp. I personally find Julia macros harder to think about than Lisp or Scheme macros, partly for that reason.
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Please note that the creators of Julia no longer call it homoiconic [1].

The fact that you can access the AST in a language is not sufficient to make it homoiconic. There are several programming languages like Julia that let you access the AST yet are not (conventionally) considered homoiconic.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31733766/in-what-sense-a...

Oh, I didn't realize that. Thanks!