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Re:Using the C preprocessor as an HTML templating engine by imglorp on Sunday June 16, 2024 @10:38PM (#40701881)
Yep, it was called cfront.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront

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Re:Using the C preprocessor as an HTML templating engine by kragen on Sunday June 16, 2024 @11:57PM (#40702195)
cfront was the actual compiler; it was written in c++, not m4
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Re:Using the C preprocessor as an HTML templating engine by aodonnell2536 on Monday June 17, 2024 @04:57PM (#40710982)
cfront was a C++ => C transpiler
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