[d_t_w]

This is my experience also (10+ years with Clojure).

Macros extend the language. I don't need to do that often. I think I've written a dozen macros in ten years and deleted all but one of them.

My current codebase has two macros, one I wrote and that only supports some repetitive behaviour in a test namespace.

Clojure's super-power is solving problems on the JVM and in the browser with one language consisting of well thought out datastructures and a suberb core library of functions that operate on those datastructures.

That, and great host interop. And Instaparse, which is a delight!

[thom]

Macros extend the language so you're writing in a language adapted for your domain. That can be fun and productive!

I agree Instaparse is delightful, although pretty slow compared to clj-antlr, which just speaks to your point about host interop. :)