Evidence of overcomplication

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7OmdusczC8

I just finished watching this video and found it very helpful, however, when watching, I couldn’t help thinking that the existence of this talk this is a prime example of how the language has gotten overly complicated. It takes language expertise and even then, requires a tool like compiler explorer to confirm what really happens.

Don’t get me wrong, compile time computation is extremely useful, but there has to be a way to make the language/design easier to reason about. This could just be a symptom of having to be backwards compatible and only support “bolting” on capability.

I’ve been an engineer and avid C++ developer for decades and love the new features, but it seems like there is just so much to keep in my headspace to take advantage everything modern C++ has to offer. I would like to save that headspace for the actual problems I am using C++ to solve.



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