You're probably right, I didn't really go deep in with the macros, mostly just injecting code with 'quote' to remove occasional boilerplate. The point was more about the ability to easily manipulate the code within the code to create DSLs (like Ecto for SQL) in a "lispy" way, which Elixir is notably good at. In that sense we can add D, Rust and Nim as well, all somewhat recent languages that also provide that feature.

Yeah I had just read some stuff about Elixir not being homoiconic and wanted to just point that out (in essence, I was being pedantic), it doesn't really ding your point.