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Michael Kohl π¦πΉπΉπA tale in 3 pictures. In which our hero wonders if he can and doesn't stop to ask if he should.
necrophcodr@citizen428 some slight modifications, and you can use cpp -E + that to make a static site generator using the preprocessor.
@necrophcodr Funny you'd say that, because this (`clang -I. -P -E`) but in another context is how this little side quest started.
@citizen428 I mean it has simple uses too, like adding simple include statements in any file, or, as you've shown, macros.
I've used it to make a lockfile for my Containerfile, and I'd just build using cpp -E <file> | docker build -f- <...>
leyrer
XilokarSo, it's some kind of chtml...
(you'll definitively want to put the ```#define HTML``` in a .h.tml file included by abuse.c)
Hannah Kiekens@citizen428 Glorious
@hannahk The things we do to avoid actual work, eh? :-)
Ryan Castellucci (they/them) 
@citizen428 I highly recommend combining this with a MAP macro.
@ryanc Please donβt give me ideas π
@citizen428 Fine. I will not inflict further ideas upon you, but why do you hate fun?
@ryanc I'm just trying to avoid getting nerd sniped into spending any more time on this. I have a much bigger preprocessor abuse planned :D
Siguza@citizen428 omg, you even serve it right from C code?! God, I want to unsee this...
@siguza Maximum cursed is what I was going for, so yes. If you prefer CGI and another web server you could use kcgi:
Evelyn Estelle@citizen428 Thanks for sharing the code.
In a weird way, this is exactly what the C preprocessor is designed to do.
I still don't want to debug a bigger website though. 
@[email protected] $DEITY no, I'd never want to actually work with this outside of a little late-night hack session.
Three plus or minus five@citizen428 seems perfectly sensible to me. C pre processor is fast and well-understood.
Reid 
@citizen428 I mean, this is actually not *that* far off from what lispers do when generating sites in lisp
@reiddragon Sure, but compared to operating on an AST simple text substitution only gets you this far.
Miroslav Franc@citizen428 Looks more sensible than generating programs with it.
tea@citizen428 reminds me of the horrors me and @friz64 were up to, also serving an entire web page from an ESP32 as one big string iirc, base64 encoded images and all.
Wintermute_BBS
it/its kitten 
@tea @citizen428 @friz64 reminded of tue gbs-control building a webpage into a byte array and spitting it out at runtime, as well as saving and loading files in a flash filesystem
and the gazillion associated race conditions
and the gazillion associated race conditions
diffie :3 (bindiff)@citizen428 That's called GNU M4.
@jwo Technically it's called an ill-advised use of my time that should never have happened, but yeah.
@citizen428 Well, something like this is provided as a quasi-standard Kotlin/Ktor library IIRC.
@jwo Yup, kotlinx.html. Rust has https://maud.lambda.xyz. There's plenty of precedent, but that doesn't make this specific late night digression a good idea.
Ray McCarthy@citizen428
Macros are a really bad idea that should never be used in C. They are unfortunately needed in Assembler, but assembler, other than to boot strap a compiler is not needed for the last 30 years. Not even on microcontrollers (see Forth and JAL).
Macros are a really bad idea that should never be used in C. They are unfortunately needed in Assembler, but assembler, other than to boot strap a compiler is not needed for the last 30 years. Not even on microcontrollers (see Forth and JAL).
@raymaccarthy @citizen428 Forth ... π
@raymaccarthy I would have thought the "extremely bad idea" cartoon in the first image made it clear that I agree with this. But this is chaos.social and "SpaΓ am GerΓ€t" (loosely "Fun with the device) is basically the CCC motto.
Chuck@citizen428 Oh great, doxygen patch coming in 3 .. 2 .. 1 ..
schnittchen π³οΈβπβ π EasterHegg, GPN@citizen428 I did a somewhat similar thing in AtomVM on a microcontroller. Saves lots of memory!
overflo@citizen428 Ein klarer Fall fΓΌr die kinky geeks
Sashin@citizen428 I did this with rust before!
@sashin Rust having proper macros makes this a lot easier, see e.g. https://maud.lambda.xyz
Schaf@citizen428 old and busted: php as a c preprocessorΒΉ
hot and new: c preprocessor as a php
ΒΉ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/396644/replacements-for-the-c-preprocessor/16256052#16256052
Edit: Originalquelle verlinkt
Sigma@citizen428 Oh oh-no...
(roll m3tti)@citizen428 if it works don't fix it i guess. Somehow it feels like react but without the reactivity :D
@m3tti Depends on your definition of "works" :D I'd not be inclined to actually use this.
Christian Asch@citizen428 Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
echarlie@citizen428 the C preprocessor is just m4 with marginally worse syntax. it was *designed* for this. (or more accurately, m4 was designed because someone else did this)
Tilton Raccoon@citizen428 Yesssss, goooood
Dana Fried
i. celeste aurora 
[witchzard]@citizen428 @eniko Impressive! π³π
@citizen428 @eniko The first words were "WTF????" - that's why the first emoji ππ
Jordan@citizen428 @joe Hey, guess what syntax the C preprocessor strips out for you?
Guess what syntax is really common in web pages? (and also property lists, where I first encountered this clash)
Joe Groff (1M Context)@jrose @citizen428 to their credit, they did say it was a bad idea
@citizen428 @joe Yeah, sorry, I didnβt mean it as a mark against you either! It just rang a bell, having run into people attempting to do even a less silly thing.
Matt@citizen428 @roskakori probably did this about 30 years ago π
tech himbo@citizen428 this is based actually
gullevek β’οΈ π―π΅
Rue Mohr@citizen428 for GCC, add #define true 1
@RueNahcMohr Works fine as-is. The Makefile targets `-std=c23` where `true` is an actual keyword. Unless I misunderstood your intention here.
@citizen428 ah! didn't work on my GCC!
@citizen428 oh! I bet I know why, I noticed clang in the makefile and command line-ran gcc without options!
Π½Π°Π±@citizen428 you're not gonna like how i make my web site... https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/nabijaczleweli.github.io/blob/dev/src/blogue/018-mean-shift-clusterer.html.pp#L496 (source for https://nabijaczleweli.xyz/content/blogue/018-mean-shift-clusterer.html)
