[sanderjd]

Ha, yeah, though I would say that the lisp solution has a different downside: it's really nice to be able to see what the post-generation code all looks like. None of lisps I've used have made that as easy for their macro expansions as I would like.

[bandrami]

There was an editor (for cmucl maybe?) that would macroexpand in a tooltip on hover and macroexpand-1 on right click (or maybe the opposite) on an s-expression. I'm surprised something like that didn't make it into slime, though you can I think macroexpand to the minibuffer. But, yeah, that's why it rewards doing macros in small pieces.