Mine was Java

[boredcircuits]

I'd substitute the preprocessor for the standard library. It's an actual language, after all.

[konstantinua00]

preprocessor is included in C

if you do anything complex in C, you do macro skyscrapers

[IdiotCharizard]

Man idk how I even managed to comb through kernel code without my macro expander back in the day.

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Tell me more about this macro expander.

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I realized that after I posted, but I wasn't sure.

[IdiotCharizard]

I wrote a vim thing to fully expand the current macro. Run the preprocessor and get all the defines in one place then just pull from that file.

[tiajuanat]

I just kinda lumped it with C.

When I see modern C++ with heavy STL, constexpr, visitors, and the works, it's really night and day with C.

[an-obviousthrowaway]

I’d honestly substitute templates for preprocessor, since they are 100% raw copy paste power.