https://github.com/m0smith/malabar-mode is a very respectable major mode for Java. Historically Emacs' Java support was weak (lack of interest apparently).
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I've written a lot of lisp, including a respectable number of macros, and I don't think I've ever been caught out by hygiene.
I've definitely written broken macros that expanded to the wrong thing though.