[AmalgatedAmoeba]

As is usually the case, it depends. Macros for “reducing boilerplate” or other syntactic reasons are poorly justified. While the resulting code might look cleaner, it’s often much harder to decipher (JS “decorators” suffer from the same issue). Macros can be invaluable for trading compile time for runtime performance, compensating for missing language features, and general metaprogramming… in a compiled language. It’s beyond me why would anybody think that macros are a good fit for interpreted JS.