Chapter 1The Language of Macros
It’s time to begin our journey to metaprogramming mastery. Ahead lies new Elixir insights and new programming abilities. Perhaps you want to write more productive libraries, build domain-specific languages, or optimize runtime performance. Maybe you simply want to have fun exploring all that Elixir has to offer. If this sounds like you, let’s get started!
By now, you’re familiar with Elixir; you’ve experimented with the language and perhaps contributed to a library or two. We’re going to take it to the next level by writing code that writes code with macros. Elixir macros are the game-changer. They enable metaprogramming and make it a breeze to write powerful programs.
Code that writes code might sound like a ...
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