I think it all comes down to what kind of programs you're writing. For example, without a powerful macro system, something like the nanopass framework [1] woul

I think it all comes down to what kind of programs you're writing. For example, without a powerful macro system, something like the nanopass framework [1] would not have been possible. Sure, you could write an external code generator, but at that point you've just implemented a bad macro system. [1] https://github.com/nanopass/nanopass-framework-scheme https://github.com/nanopass/nanopass-framework-scheme