Having to make ad hoc domain specific languages embedded in your comments that are then processed and expanded by entirely separate compilers, essentially reinv

Having to make ad hoc domain specific languages embedded in your comments that are then processed and expanded by entirely separate compilers, essentially reinventing the C macro preprocessor, is in my opinion the mark of a terminally underpowered language that even the people regularly using it realize is underpowered even if they don't admit it to themselves.