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Metaprogramming, or the ability to inspect, modify and generate code at compile-time (as opposed to reflection, which is runtime introspection of code), has slowly been gaining momentum. Programmers are finally admitting that, after accidentally inventing turing complete template systems, maybe we should just have proper first-class support for generating code. Rust has macros, Zig has built-in compile time expressions, Nim lets you rewrite the AST however you please, and dependent types have be...

In a rather embarrassing and awkward blunder, the Twitter account of Google Pixel was found responding to Apple CEO Tim Cook's tweet using an iPhone to promote its own smartphone lineup.