Maybe inline functions may be used for some basic metaprogramming, but I'm not sure https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/inline-functions.html

If you're looking for metaprogramming on the JVM, and like the semi-functional approach of Kotlin, you should definitely take a look at Clojure.

I hate clojure, but that complaint is EXACTLY what I was thinking must drive clojure users to it in the first place. Clojure just seems dumb because the jvm is such a hassle and bloated, sbcl is incredible, racket is good, guile is incredible, etc plenty of other lisp environments, why waste time on java?

I hope kotlin native is as good as scala native. I don't care about kotlin vs Java, but kotlin vs scala native is HUGE to me.