https://carado.moe/degrees-of-runtime-metaprogrammability.html
Not a brand new article, but I think about it a lot.
Then again, I'm one of the weird people who likes to say that machine code is homoiconic.
@evan The world has got a grudge against poor old Von Neumann lately.
@psf It's unfortunate the article omits mention of DEP and other mechanisms that reduce the ability of code to self-mutate for security reasons.