Hey r/lisp, I'm a CS student who is really interested in common-lisp, up until now I've done a couple cool things with it and really love the REPL workflow, however, diving into the whole lisp rabbit hole I keep hearing about macros and how useful and powerful they are but I don't think I really get how different they may be from something like functions, what am I missing?
I've read a couple of articles about it but I don't feel like I see the usefulness of it, maybe someone can guide me in the right direction? I feel like I'm missing out