Macros are used quite rarely in Clojure. In general they swing between two extremes, either as a means of providing some simple syntax sugar, or as what effecti

Macros are used quite rarely in Clojure. In general they swing between two extremes, either as a means of providing some simple syntax sugar, or as what effectively amounts to a language extension. The author cites Korma as an example of a library that uses macros, but Korma only uses macros to provide a small degree of syntax sugar. So instead of writing: (exec (where* (select* people) `(> :age 18))) One can instead write: (select people (where (> :age 18))) It's an extremely simple transformation, and can be expressed in a few lines of code. There are some libraries, such as core.async or core.logic, that make more extensive use of macros, but these libraries are relatively rare, and take a lot of work to get right. It's something I'd expect to see in a dedicated library, not as part of a solution in a large software project. Worrying about overuse of macros in Clojure is a bit like worrying about overuse of FFIs in Python. Sure, it's possible to abuse in theory, but it's not really a problem in practise.