This seems like a little bit (probably a lot) of hyperbole around clojure. While I love clojure, selling it as a "secret sauce" you just sprinkle on your start

This seems like a little bit (probably a lot) of hyperbole around clojure. While I love clojure, selling it as a "secret sauce" you just sprinkle on your startup and it succeeds is definitely not the message I think the community should be trying to send. Lisps have benefits, they're pretty well documented (just the fact that lisp is multi-paradigm in and of itself is a large benefit), but they're not infallible. If you give macros to the wrong programmer, you will slow your entire team down.