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C++ templates are like programming in Haskell without a type system - all of the pain, none of the gain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit?wprov=sfla1

If you treat these things as source languages, sure.

Surely the point is that this stuff is possible at all. If you really wanted to program something meaningful using BGP hacks, you could build a compiler.

With enough wrapping, the templates can be okay to write. For example https://github.com/llllllllll/wired looks like a shitty lisp.

I want a Powerpoint LLVM compilation target.

I consider this a reflection of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power