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Fun post looking at an impressive transformation in clang and tracing it through the different optimisation passes:

I've been implementing a quasiquoter as part of the wonderful Make-A-Lisp project: https://github.com/kanaka/mal This has been the most interesting part so far! I now have a pretty good understanding of how it's an AST transformation that you later eval. I.e. basically a macro.

Cute idea (in a rather dramatic blog post): randomly generate strings for PL keywords, and apply the same transformation to your source code. This prevents code injection: https://blog.polyverse.io/introducing-polyscripting-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-code-injection-fe0c99d6f199 (I suppose you could brute force, and they don't say if it breaks eval.)