Programming · by Ethan Brooks · 2026-10-17
Fun with extending the C preprocessor
42 sparks · 18 comments
Programming · by Ethan Brooks · 2026-10-17
42 sparks · 18 comments
Tanvir Rahman · 9 likes
extending the C preprocessor is the kind of thing I'd have loved to read about years ago lol
Brave Lantern · 5 likes
me reading this at 2am instead of sleeping
Priya Nair · 2 likes
I thought the same until I actually tried it
Laura Gómez · 7 likes
The cost of extending the C preprocessor matters more than people admit.
Faisal Al Saud · 6 likes
could you share more details? genuinely curious
Tiny Atlas · 7 likes
been thinking about extending the C preprocessor all morning imo
Léa Bernard · 0 likes
Same, it took me ages to figure this stuff out.
Tanvir Rahman · 0 likes
How will these C preprocessor extensions look in a year? People don't talk enough about the downsides.
Noah Miller · 12 likes
lol my cat would have done a better job
Faisal Al Saud · 11 likes
my wallet just cried reading that
Midnight Sparrow · 0 likes
as someone who works with this stuff, extending the C preprocessor is not as simple as the headline says imo
Élodie Favre · 10 likes
this is the comment I was looking for
Noah Campbell · 1 likes
yeah same here, didn't think about it that way
Zeynep Demir · 0 likes
Been following C preprocessor extensions for a while. They keep surprising me.
Sofía Hernández · 5 likes
ngl that made me laugh out loud
Paolo Garcia · 0 likes
I think C preprocessor extensions get overhyped, but there's something real in them.
Aoi Ito · 3 likes
same experience for me, took ages to figure out
Maya Williams · 1 likes
I thought the same until I actually tried it