D language is probably the Goldilocks of programming languages for the rest of us in terms of compilation speed (comparable to Go), program execution (comparable to C/C++) and ease of programming and debugging (comparable to Python). The author of the D language despises macro more than you, and has designed a solution for modern and sane approaches to template programming [1][2]. If you want to program like C in D modern eco system there is a safer betterC. Heck now there is even borrow checking capability if you want safety guarantees similar to Rust.

[1]https://mobile.twitter.com/WalterBright/status/1343128003178...

[2]https://dlang.org/blog/2018/03/29/std-variant-is-everything-...