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		jcelerier on May 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building an efficient and portable programming lan... > C++ templates are past well studied examples, and both produced awful results. What's wrong with templates ? They give you a compile-time functional language that operates on types, isn't that great ?

deterministic on May 15, 2021 [–]

Imagine being able to use C++ to operate on types at compile time instead of using the verbose template syntax.

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