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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not really a cheat. not having it as a separate build step makes it *incremental* -- it only compiles resources as needed when they change, that's huge, definitely not "the same thing". just look at the GraphQL demo on the website, no other tools can touch that right now, definitely not the crap I'm using (apollo)

the IDE integration, in my opinion, is where manifold is a game changer, only right now it looks like it's exclusive to IntelliJ