• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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

    • JakenVeina@lemm.ee
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      1 year 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.