A tale in 3 pictures.

[citizen428@chaos.social]

@m3tti Depends on your definition of "works" I'd not be inclined to actually use this.

[citizen428@chaos.social]

@schaf That's exactly what the lolsob emoji is for.

[citizen428@chaos.social]

@joe @jrose I thought it was rather obvious that this is not a serious suggestion, then I added the cartoon just in case.

[jrose@social.belkadan.com]

@citizen428 @joe Yeah, sorry, I didn’t 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.

[citizen428@chaos.social]

@ics @eniko

Not the first word I’d use

[ics@tau-ceti.space]

@citizen428 @eniko The first words were "WTF????" - that's why the first emoji

[necrophcodr@layer8.space]

@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- <...>

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@citizen428 I highly recommend combining this with a MAP macro.

[citizen428@chaos.social]

@ryanc Please don’t give me ideas

[siguza@infosec.space]

@citizen428 omg, you even serve it right from C code?! God, I want to unsee this...

[fx@chaos.social]

@citizen428 finally, webdev in C

[ryanc@infosec.exchange]

@citizen428 Fine. I will not inflict further ideas upon you, but why do you hate fun?

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@citizen428
Finally somebody's optimised CGI.pm's html functions

CGI::HTML::Functions

Documentation for CGI.pm Legacy HTML Functionality

MetaCPAN (metacpan.org)

[hirunatan@xarxa.cloud]

@citizen428 this is funny, because this idea is real (more or less). The https://penpot.app is made this way!

It's written in Clojure language, that also has a feature of creating macros (although with better syntax checks). We use the `rumext` framework, that defines macros that are expanded in compile time into HTML, react style.

GitHub - penpot/penpot: Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration

Penpot: The open-source design tool for design and code collaboration - penpot/penpot

GitHub (github.com)

So here is your idea working in a hugely complex application, with the (little) issue that it's in a language with good macros...

[hirunatan@xarxa.cloud]

@citizen428 this is a real example of the code in the app:

[:div {:class (stl/css :modal-overlay)}
[:div {:class (stl/css :modal-dialog)
:data-testid "token-theme-update-create-modal"}
[:> icon-button* {:class (stl/css :close-btn)
:on-click modal/hide!
:aria-label (tr "labels.close")
:variant "action"
:icon i/close}]
[:> themes-modal-body*]]]

[dragonfi@social.jsteuernagel.de]

@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.

[citizen428@chaos.social]

@dragonfi@jsteuernagel.de $DEITY no, I'd never want to actually work with this outside of a little late-night hack session.

[citizen428@chaos.social]

@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

[stefanct@chaos.social]

@citizen428 @wonka @Lemmus that's exactly the place where it stabs you with a rusty spoon.

[citizen428@chaos.social]

@siguza Maximum cursed is what I was going for, so yes. If you prefer CGI and another web server you could use kcgi:

kcgi: minimal CGI and FastCGI library for C/C++

A C/C++ library for security-oriented web applications.

(kristaps.bsd.lv)