Comment by emsy

I still don't understand why people bother with template metaprogramming. And I genuinely mean it. Other languages have much simpler and nicer constructs and seem to work just fine. And even within C++ you can often solve the problem with more verbose, but simpler code. Every time I read an article or watch a talk on it I have the impression that people use it because they can, not because there's some huge upside in using them. Did I miss the magic "aha" moment?