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by davidw
483 days ago
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Coming from Erlang, I think macros are one of the things I'm ambivalent about in Elixir. There are a bunch of actual improvements besides just the syntax itself in Elixir, like string handling, but things like macros in Ecto ... not yet a fan of that. |
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Well, The whole language itself is built on macros. The following series of articles certainly helped me stop worrying and love the macros..
https://www.theerlangelist.com/article/macros_1
Some interesting insights from the article: "Elixir itself is heavily powered by macros. Many constructs, such as defmodule, def, if, unless, and even defmacro[1] are actually macros...."
[1] https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.18.2/lib/elixi...