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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...
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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...