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If you haven’t already look up ‘if constexpr’ in cpp17 and newer. It lets you have compile time branches in a single function.

Also requires, which initially looks batshit insane but is in fact really quite cool: https://www.think-cell.com/en/career/devblog/if-constexpr-re...

> Unlike requires requires and requires { requires }, which are perfectly reasonable C++ code, requires requires { requires } is completely silly.

Normal day in cpp land...

How on earth did C++ brainrot lead them to think that reusing that keyword was anything but a nightmare? The very first line of the article

> Probably the two most useful features added to C++20 are requires and requires

said without a trace of irony ... the whole thing reads like parody!

I keep hearing that C++20 or whatever is getting so great but if so why would they specify such a dumpster fire of syntax???