It's good to hear your experience is positive My guess would be that people that come from C++, where meta programming is insanely complex and hard to follow,

It's good to hear your experience is positive My guess would be that people that come from C++, where meta programming is insanely complex and hard to follow, would guess that a language that encourages meta programming would often lead to complex and hard to follow solutions. A DSL that looks simple on usage but then looking into how it works is 10 nested complex compile time macros.