> I'm baffled as to why you would want to use macros to emulate c++.

I like the power of destructors (auto cleanup) and templates (generic containers). But I also want a language that I can parse. Like, at all.

C is pretty easy to parse. Quite a few annoying corner cases, some context sensitive stuff, but still pretty workable. C++ on the other hand? It’s mostly pick a frontend or the highway.