[travisgriggs]

> One of the points that has rather surprised me is that we devs have not more broadly explored what we could do with our metaobject protocols. We havent had a boom in metaprogramming, we haven't seen a largescale return of AOP; we've been letting objects stay dumb unextended objects for a long time now.

The other day I showed some newer devs how they could replace a good 10+ lines of for/index/loop/conditional code whose purpose was to find either the next or previous elements following an element that matched a condition with wrap around semantics. I did it using a zip and a filter. Good old “functional” approach. That’s cool they said, and then got rid of me as quick as they could. They had been close to pushing their changes. And indeed did.

It used to be the case that a sizable number of my peers were interested in furthering their craft. Those that “just ship it, it works, ok?” We’re tolerated. Now it seems that enthusiast peers that are interested in “exploration” and “discovery” are few and far between. I’m surrounded by people that do their hours and clock out tickets.

So no, I am no longer surprised by this lack of meta programming interest. Or any other “higher level” linguistic pursuits.