[ianthehenry]

I debated mentioning this explicitly, but decided it was just noise next to the rest of the post. But you should note that, while that macro can be easily replaced with lambdas without much change in ergonomics, there are lots of much more interesting things you can do with macros that do not have equivalent substitutes in a language like JavaScript. (e.g. JSX exists as its own weird pre-processor thing, but you could theoretically just do it with macros instead, and then it could compose with other syntax extensions.)

> we get the benefit of one thing less to learn

But learning programming language theory is the best part :)

[curist]

Didn't recognize you're the OP! So my comment may not be that off-topic then :D

> But learning programming language theory is the best part :)

That's very true :)