[jfkebwjsbx]

Herb Sutter is biased. He works on C++ language lawyering, he works on new features, he works in the STL, etc.

People like him tend to be biased about using auto because they write mostly libraries and generic ones at that (data structures, for instance).

In most code out there you actively avoid templates if possible, so that code is concrete, compiles faster and is easier to debug.

[Koshkin]

Well, there's two ways to write an application, analogous to two styles in mathematics as described by A. Grothendieck.

http://www.landsburg.com/grothendieck/mclarty1.pdf

[dirtydroog]

Bingo! Writing a template library is totally different to writing an application.