Occasionally I write scripts in Hy, and I've been writing more code in Guile, but there's something I really miss about emacs lisp... yes, emacs lisp isn't generally considered the nicest lisp by many, but here is one damned nice feature: edebug macro insturmentation.

What's nice about this is that if you're using a bugger, you can continue to step forward form by form (similar how one might step forward line by line in pdb) even when you approach a macro, without expanding the macro at the debugger's cursor... it lets you step through it in the way the macro is written, because the way the macro works is described. Given that macros can expand into anything, otherwise else the debugger has to throw up its hands at this point, or actually expand the macro (not a bad option, but not as good for sure).

For all the shit emacs lisp gets for being a lame lisp, that's one cool feature. I can't find any evidence that any other lisp implements this. (Too bad... I'd love to implement it for Hy, though it looks like it'd be impossible.)