Yes! The include style of templates in C is way better than the old way of huge macros to instantiate code. The template code can look mostly like idiomatic C,

Yes! The include style of templates in C is way better than the old way of huge macros to instantiate code. The template code can look mostly like idiomatic C, it interacts way better with a debugger, it gives better compiler errors... everything about it is better and it's finally starting to become more popular. I've open sourced my own C template library here: https://github.com/ludocode/pottery https://github.com/ludocode/pottery Not only does it use the #include style of templates, but it actually makes the templates composable. It takes this idea pretty far, for example having a lifecycle template that lets you define operations on your type like move, copy, destroy, etc. This way the containers can fully manage the lifecycles of your types even if they're not bitwise movable. There's also this other more popular C template library, one that tries to more directly port C++ templates to C but with a lot less features: https://github.com/glouw/ctl/ https://github.com/glouw/ctl/