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by agumonkey 1395 days ago
It's not tied to complex DSLs and compilation. I was frustrated by the lack of f-strings in emacs lisp so I hacked a macro, now I have embedded scoped string interpolation. I can write (f "<{class} {fields}>"). Having these freedom is really not a niche, it's mentally and pragmatically important.