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by pjc50 2290 days ago
The compiler speed pain is real, and excessive use of templates to do compile time metaprogramming can be intractable, but really it's not the 2000s any more (+) and we should stop pretending that C++ is just C with classes; exceptions, RTTI and STL do actually work now and are portable.

(+) offer not valid on microcontrollers or proprietary C++ compilers