Macros and Busting Boilerplate with Robert Ellen - EMx 176

In this episode the panel talks to Robert Ellen and his experience with using macros in Elixir to get rid of some repetitive boilerplate code. They discuss common pitfalls when first diving into macros and resources which help to avoid these mistakes. Robert shares some of the finer details of the challenges they encountered when trying to build these macros and the panel gives their own personal verdict on the age old elixir question: to macro or not to macro. Finally the group briefly touches on some event sourcing topics - as the system Robert refers to was an event-sourced one. Sponsors Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/) Coaching | Top End Devs (https://topenddevs.com/coaching) Links Macro Madness: when busting boilerplate backfires - Robert Ellen (Talk) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-1xhtVz-B4) GitHub - commanded/commanded: Use Commanded to build Elixir CQRS/ES applications (https://github.com/commanded/commanded) Join Alembic (Career) (https://alembic.com.au/careers) talks | robertellen.dev (https://robertellen.dev/talks) Alembic Engineering Blog — Alembic (https://alembic.com.au/blog) Linkedin: Robert Ellen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertellen/) Twitter: @robertellen (https://twitter.com/robertellen) Picks Adi- Contact regarding the job and job seeker: aditya7iyengar@gmail.com Adi- Metaprogramming + DSL Design in Elixir - Adi Iyengar (Talk) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjeJxHFEwZo) Adi- The pillars of Metaprogramming in Elixir - Adi Iyengar (Talk) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oikF1Ze2Vao) Adi- Elixir source code to checkout regarding macros - elixir_quote.erl (GitHub) (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/lib/elixir/src/elixir_quote.erl) Adi- Elixir source code to checkout regarding macros - elixir_bootstrap.erl (GitHub) (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/lib/elixir/src/elixir_bootstrap.erl) Adi- Vegan cheese (https://www.thespruceeats.com/best-dairy-free-cheeses-1001581) Allen: GoPro - Weekender Backpack (https://gopro.com/en/us/shop/lifestyle-gear/weekender-ba