Fortunately its not just you, in Julia community there's a thread that discusses why you shouldn't use metaprogramming as a first solution as multiple dispatch

Fortunately its not just you, in Julia community there's a thread that discusses why you shouldn't use metaprogramming as a first solution as multiple dispatch and higher order functions are cleaner and faster: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-warn-new-users-away-from-metaprogramming/35022 https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-warn-new-users-away...