I use threading (->>/->) macros in Elisp too. Might not be "idiomatic" but to me malleability of LISPs has always been the biggest selling point. Although I don

I use threading (->>/->) macros in Elisp too. Might not be "idiomatic" but to me malleability of LISPs has always been the biggest selling point. Although I don't see threading macros a lot, functional libraries are pretty popular in newer Elisp packages. Now there's a different discussion to be had about laziness and immutability but for a lot of stuff it doesn't really come into play. We have laziness in Clojure but don't think we have stream fusion. Yet the functional approach works just fine for most things and is preferred. Even in JS which doesn't even have built-in laziness most new stuff uses a functional approach (underscore,lodash etc) wherever possible too. CL is just unique in that it has a very long history and a huge standard library. They have many of these monolithic functions that other languages simply don't have built-in.