Not to mention that the macros should be invoking regular functions, making it easy to skip macros if you so choose. When I pivoted from Ruby to Elixir, I was

Not to mention that the macros should be invoking regular functions, making it easy to skip macros if you so choose. When I pivoted from Ruby to Elixir, I was expecting to do a lot more metaprogramming, but I found that regular functions with pattern matching already does a lot that I want for many cases.