Lisp macros for C

&gt; Why? Because a language without macros is a tool: You write applications with it. A language with macros is building material: You shape it and grow it into your application.<p>Very nice! If only this could work with C++.

This is very interesting way to breathe new life into C. I can already think of few places where powerful macros would come in handy and eliminate some pains. On the other hand, I&#x27;m not sure if I&#x27;d want to read other people&#x27;s low-level code sprinkled with high-level constructs. Perhaps Nim would serve this purpose better?

TIL: You can use typeof(expr) as a type in variable declarations. C has type inference! A plain old C macro like<p><pre><code> #define AUTO(var, expr) typeof(expr) var = expr </code></pre> might be handy sometimes.

Thanks for sharing. The documentation is well done, looking forward to checking out the code.

This way of adding metaprogramming to C does not improve performance. The compiler will still be unable to inline the comparisons in the qsort example. C++ will continue to be much faster.