@akkartik it's an interesting claim but it's not really backed up at all; if there is a connection between image-based development and macros, I wish they would explain what it actually is
> it’s the thing that makes it possible to have Turing-complete macros that are defined in the same place as the code, without needing to involve a build system.
this makes me think it's possible that they're getting confused between "image-based" and "repl-based"? they're related but definitely not the same thing, but you can use non-image-based languages without a build system just fine