> macro language is surprising for the newcomer, but you get used to it
This was one of the biggest paradigm shifts for me in mastering C. Once I learned to stop treating the preprocessor as a hacky afterthought, and realized that it's actually a first-class citizen in C and has been since its conception, I realized how beautiful and useful it really is when used the way the designers intended. You can do anything with it, literally anything, from reflection to JSON and YAML de/serialization to ad hoc generics. It's so harmonious, if unsightly, like the fat lady with far too much makeup singing the final opus.
D accomplishes this by using Compile Time Function Execution to build D source code from strings, and then inline compiling the D code. Learning a macro language is unnecessary, as it's just more D code.
> You can do anything with it, literally anything, from reflection to JSON and YAML de/serialization to ad hoc generics.
Wow. Do you have any pointers? I always thought random computation with it is hard, because it doesn't really wants to do recursion by design. Or are you talking about using another program as the preprocessor?
This was one of the biggest paradigm shifts for me in mastering C. Once I learned to stop treating the preprocessor as a hacky afterthought, and realized that it's actually a first-class citizen in C and has been since its conception, I realized how beautiful and useful it really is when used the way the designers intended. You can do anything with it, literally anything, from reflection to JSON and YAML de/serialization to ad hoc generics. It's so harmonious, if unsightly, like the fat lady with far too much makeup singing the final opus.