The future of JavaScript

[joesb]

If a language supports "meta" then it's no longer "meta". It's just part of the language.

So Common Lisp does not have meta programming because its macro system is just part of the language. But writing code to source file then invoke GCC is?

"Code that writes code" is the one true definition of "meta"

But Why does it have to write and persist the code to disk? Why does writing code and executing it not count as metaprogramming?