As someone that uses Clojure as a hobbyist I don't think I've ever used the fact it's a homoiconic language in my programs But I do suspect it's helping me in

As someone that uses Clojure as a hobbyist I don't think I've ever used the fact it's a homoiconic language in my programs But I do suspect it's helping me indirectly it does make it easier to write static analysis tools for Clojure It does make it easier for IDEs to identify what expressions I'm sending to the repl And if I ever make a macro it will be helpful there For me the question of why lisp or why Clojure the answer would be much more broad A lot of the comments in this thread and the original article don't apply to all lisps