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by cyber_kinetist 3 days ago
The problem with metaprogramming-heavy C++ codebases is always compilation times and obtuse error messages...

Template metaprogramming is sometimes very useful to get around C++'s language restrictions, but I tend to use it sparingly.
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nly 3 days ago
> obtuse error messages

With concepts and constexpr-if and consteval it's increasingly less of a problem

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fluoridation 3 days ago
I've been using C++ for about 20 years and I've yet to see these scary template error messages people always complain about. Yeah, they're long, but they contain all the information you need to fix the issue, which is damn near always at the deepest point in the call stack that you still control.
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