alt Hacker NewsYou can definitely make an incomprehensible soup out of C++ templates. C++ expression templates are a classic example. But the threshold of this is much higher than with a macro language.
Using C++ templates for a linked list type doesn't make a mess.
I am not sure, I quite like the new C macro-templates. I also do not think the implementation is messy. Can you narrow down specific aspects where you think using macros for this is problematic?