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Re:REPL vs CLI: IDE wars by marcosdumay on Thursday July 01, 2021 @11:12AM (#27699887)
Homoiconicity is an ill-defined concept. If you take every subjective feature from it, all it implies is that you are able to cut your code into well defined AST structures (what all languages have, but for some it's easier than for others).

So, yeah, anything people do with Lisp could be done for any other language, it only requires more complex tooling. How much more complexity depending on the language, and it varies from "barely perceptibly more" into "that's completely not practical".

Re:REPL vs CLI: IDE wars by thanato0s on Saturday July 10, 2021 @10:18AM (#27793489)
To me, "only" and "complex" shouldn't be used in the same sentence. Big part of the job of a developer is to reduce complexity, and we barely do it (depending of the system). What is "barely perceptible" now can be "completely not practical" 2 years down the road.
Re:REPL vs CLI: IDE wars by js2 on Thursday July 01, 2021 @12:18PM (#27700773)