I'd say it's more true that you rarely need to write a macro than it is that you rarely need to use them. Lots of very useful things across the language, from b

I'd say it's more true that you rarely need to write a macro than it is that you rarely need to use them. Lots of very useful things across the language, from builtins like the threading macros (->, ->>) to libaries like Compojure, are built on macros.