[platz]

it's pretty practical if you're building line-of-business apps, web servers, or other things you would use java for.

[gowld]

Yes, miss one character in a thing that looks like HTML but is actually a gigantic function call, get an incomprehensible failure message about how the meta-template macro expansion has an error.

[platz]

macros/templates are usually confined to borders, databases, routes. not the business logic. Lisps are more susceptible to that.

[gowld]

Not even talking about business logic, just talking about page layout.

https://www.yesodweb.com

[platz]

Yes, c# and Java do codegen for you too, in the same way. This is how templating in static languages work.