everybody agrees, which is why most sane people very rarely reach for macros. At the same time, it would be great if some of the libraries that rely on typeclas

everybody agrees, which is why most sane people very rarely reach for macros. At the same time, it would be great if some of the libraries that rely on typeclass machinery for code generation could use lisp-like macros, because turning a 3 second recompile to a 35 second recompile (and I have experienced worse. Much worse.) is what kills exploratory programming. I heard optics mostly solves much of the problems of generic lens, but god forbid you use something like servant or polysemy. Chez compiles a project of about 35000 lines (with heavy macro usage) in less than 0.5s on -O2.