I have seen this kind of ”flip-flop” behaviour people have with macros a few times. First you go all in, burn yourself, and then go to the other extreme. Perso

I have seen this kind of ”flip-flop” behaviour people have with macros a few times. First you go all in, burn yourself, and then go to the other extreme. Personally, i think macros are a good way to automate some common tasks, but you have to be carefull to keep them short. Also it is a good idea to prune macros periodically to remove what you dont need. In Cpp, If you find yourself choosing weather to use a macro or a template; Choose the one which is more terse! Also macros will always inline in debug while templates will generate functions in debug builds, without optimizations. This may be an important performance consideration at times.