The fear about macros in Elixir itself seems a little overblown. Most macros are consumed in the same way you would consume functions or keywords in another lan

The fear about macros in Elixir itself seems a little overblown. Most macros are consumed in the same way you would consume functions or keywords in another language (e.g. defmodule/def/defp/if/unless/etc.). The only one that I can think of that can be problematic is `use`, which is more of a problem with third-party libs where someone might do a lot of "magic", but in general is mostly used to do things like import functions, alias modules, etc. The concern about macro abuse is certainly valid, but I don't feel like it's at all a problem with the core language, but rather abuse by people who feel the need to use macros for things which do not require macros. In addition, macro usage in Elixir is always explicit - you must import/use macros at the top of a module, and the implementation of those macros is easy to find by going to that module definition. It's not nearly as dangerous as say, monkey-patching in Ruby. In any case, just wanted to chime in with my two-cents. I've been working in Elixir for the last couple of years and have never felt like I've been bitten by macros. Elixir is certainly a bigger language than Erlang, but many of the things Elixir adds on top of Erlang are what make it so pleasant to work with. For example, the reduction in boilerplate for gen_servers which is made possible with `use GenServer` in Elixir.