Are there any noteworthy lisp dialects that don't have macros?
Macros aren't obligatory, but I'm struggling to think of any good lisp examples that lack them.
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C# has an interesting concept of second-class macros called Source Generators: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-c-source-generators/
You can generate additional code at build time, but you can't transform existing expressions (unlike normal macros), so it's more amenable to tooling.
Linux historically used magic numbers to recognise structs being used incorrectly with void pointers. These have been increasingly replaced with type-safe macros: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/915163/ba83480903b82cb8/
Some of the original files were unchanged from the 90s!
@friend It seems like people find Zig comptime easier to reason about, hence the interest in introducing it to other languages.
That seems worth something. I still prefer Lisp/Clojure style macros over safer Scheme/Rust macros. Lisp macro implementations are closer to typical code.