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by millsteed 878 days ago
Yeah, it is. It inspired the reflection in Dart, which inspired the macros. You can only use Dart's reflection when running in VM mode though. Flutter apps use AOT compilation, due to tree-shaking, so you lose the reflection and fall back to having to run codegen - kind of like TypeScript -> JS. This is a nice improvement that is run in memory before compilation and allows better access to the AST.