Gave me a smile to see the shout out to LISP in there.
Reading this take on it, it feels like a JIT compiler could also accomplish a fair bit of this? I'm also reminded of the way a lot of older programs would generate tables during build time. I'm assuming that is still fairly common?
Yes, this is all straightforward with Lisp macros. Beyond that, you can call the compile function in Common Lisp and do all this at run time too.
In fact, there's https://github.com/telekons/one-more-re-nightmare for CL.