What Phil Hagelberg thinks about compilers

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Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.

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1. 31 Dec 2023

   Our readingMost macros just transform their arguments, so running them during static analysis is usually safe even though it can't be guaranteed.

   Their wordsmost macros don't actually do anything other than pure transformation of their arguments. It's almost always safe to run them during static analysis, except you don't know for sure

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