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No, there are no plans for first-class metaprogramming. The purpose of exposing the parser, type checker, module system, etc, in the standard library is to allow for users to more easily build custom Hare tooling. The closest thing you could get to metaprogramming with this is some assistance with code generation.

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That's unfortunate, some metaprogramming could be fun and without generics and such quite simple and efficient even.

Totally agree that metaprogramming is fun. But I don't think it's a recipe for simplicity and robust engineering, and that's the priority with Hare.

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