This seems like a little bit (probably a lot) of hyperbole around clojure.<p>While I love clojure, selling it as a &quot;secret sauce&quot; you just sprinkle on your startup and it succeeds is definitely not the message I think the community should be trying to send.<p>Lisps have benefits, they&#x27;re pretty well documented (just the fact that lisp is multi-paradigm in and of itself is a large benefit), but they&#x27;re not infallible. If you give macros to the wrong programmer, you will slow your entire team down.