• @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        611 months ago

        How so, templates make for less code usually? Or like template meta prog?

        I’m a C++ dev and I’m lost on this one :-p plz send help

        • Phrodo_00
          link
          fedilink
          311 months ago

          I think it’s because each template specialization works kind of like a new copy of a class.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          111 months ago

          /shrug

          That’s my best guess, in the sense that that’s what the compiler ends up producing, for templated code: the same code copy-pasted for however many different use cases you have.