[p9fus]

> The alternatives to Lisp Macros like codegen, method annotations, Rust Macros. Are all much less powerful and usually harder to create, but maybe that is a good thing.

I kinda agree that macros can lead to a lot of (bad) abstractions if you overuse them, but when you need a macro a lot of times the alternatives a language provides can somehow feel more magical if you try to get them to do macro-y things (decorators/attributes... languages always seem to mix those two terms) or just cumbersome and in my opinion kinda an ugly hack to paper over the fact that your language is lacking in some way (codegen). I'd much rather read a simple (lisp) macro then understand how your ugly codegen system works.

I dont have enough knowledge to comment on rust macros though.