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by 38 878 days ago
isn't this bad? every single language I have ever seen that added macros (including Rust) has had problems with macros. unless you are VERY careful, the macro language ends up being turing complete, and/or compile times explode. also now you have two programming languages, and macro heavy code tends to be unreadable, which is fine for the API users, but makes maintenance a nightmare.
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> A macro declaration is a user-defined Dart class that implements one or more new built-in macro interfaces. Macros in Dart are written in normal imperative Dart code. There is not a separate "macro language".
Have you seen Zig's comptime macros? On the surface, that seems like a great approach: no second language and readability fails