Can someone ELI5 or point me to an idiots guide as to why macros are desirable? As a non professional programmer who work on small side projects I'm struggling to understand what benefit they bring.
Google announced 2 years ago they would be adding "macros" support to the Dart language. They stopped that work yesterday. As former Eng Director of Dart (and co-founder of Flutter) I've offered my hot-take.
Can someone ELI5 or point me to an idiots guide as to why macros are desirable? As a non professional programmer who work on small side projects I'm struggling to understand what benefit they bring.
Related:
Google discontinuing work on Dart macros
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871867
Google announced 2 years ago they would be adding "macros" support to the Dart language. They stopped that work yesterday. As former Eng Director of Dart (and co-founder of Flutter) I've offered my hot-take.