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wakawaka28 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: C++26: Pack Indexing

You can't express more semantics without more syntax. So the "clean" JS is not burdened by the extra semantics that C++ must account for.

suby 3 months ago [–]

I'm not sure that this is true. Let's take a look at generics. In C++, we use angled brackets like myFunction<SomeType>();

This could however be done without introducing angled brackets. myFunction(myFirstClassType); which is what more and more languages nowadays do like Zig.

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