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I like the retrospective of this post! The "what ifs" that could've been taken are fun to think about.

I think I might take a step further than this post does—I think some sort of Racket/Rust-style macro system should be implemented in JS, which means that that means something like JSX could be implemented as a library. There's already been _some_ work on this in JavaScript (SweetJS https://www.sweetjs.org/), but making it first-class would be a big win, IMO.

I know that there are common objects to macros as being too complicated/having poor misuse resistence, but it can (and has!) been implemented and used pretty judiciously all the non-C/C++ languages I've used.