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Prompted by a similar question on Reddit, I have written a comment on the history, the scope and the status of Scalameta: https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/8g359q/macros_the_…

Author of Scala macros here. Here's a recent discussion on the future of macros in the brave new world of Dotty: https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/4our5m/keynote_scala... .

What kind of performance issues are you having in mind?

Speaking of byte/short literals, we can already have a syntax for them with string interpolation. In fact, that's what is already implemented in Spire: https://github.com/non/spire…

ClassTags were always thread-safe - they are simple wrappers over j.l.Class. TypeTags however were not, and that's supposed to be fixed in 2.11.0.

Scala macros are different. We deeply respect the Lisp tradition, in which we are rooted, but we also accommodate and empower our language's values - static types and rich syntax […

Hi, that's me who's doing macros for Scala. Martin & Adriaan have already commented on my choice of the project and its status within Scala, but I'd like to additionally elaborate …