Meta-programming

I’ve been working in Clojure for the better portion of a year now. I came to Clojure very excited to learn more about macros and symbolic programming. I learned some powerful concepts, but the takeaways were not what I expected. Overall, I found that macros are not a clear win.

Fred Brooks once described elegant design as few ideas combined powerfully. Clojure is a language that lives by that idea. Understanding Clojure improved my understanding of language choices in general. Here I’ll highlight some of my learnings.