Manifold makes Java the ,,acceptable Lisp''

http://manifold.systems/

• metaprogramming but type-safe
• actually working IDE integration
• JSON/XML/GraphQL bindings generated at compile-time by simply putting files in a directory
• scientific units and operator overloading
• lol C preprocessor
• lol code-gen based on text templates

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the lack of code-gen is a bit of a cheat though. basically, it doesn't have a code-gen build step where they run a program to create code before compiling. what they do have is a compiler plugin which achieves the same thing (I guess on the AST level). also check'em