Not sure why people are downvoting. We all have our hidden agendas, mine is the destruction of all macros.

Surely if you ensure people can't write macros in your language they'll just wrap the entire language in a pre-processing layer to enable macros which seems obviously worse ?

Something something typescript

What are compilers but advanced text macros?

I disagree for two reasons. The first is that if the traditional upstream stops caring about improvement, it's only reasonable for other parties to move on. And that's largely true with the C ecosystem, as it was with OpenOffice for example.

Second, "extend" has traditionally meant "extend with proprietary code". Think early 2000s Microsoft with browser APIs and J++, or Amazon with their in-house forks of MongoDB, PostgresQL, etc.

There's plenty of innocuous activity that could be called E3 if you stretch the definition that far. Most of the GNU ecosystem for example.

I'm not opposed to calling GNU E3. Basically no one uses unix or multics or whatever anymore.

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Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate

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