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I don't get it. What's wrong with constexpr? It's vastly preferable to macros due to type safety, and const due to compile-time optimization.
I don't get it either. OP might be angry at compile time (Couldn't be worse than rust)
Rust doesn't allow type inference in function signatures, c++ does with auto. IIRC, they recommended against using it, because of -you guessed it- compile time.
TBH I thought it was for refactoring type safety. Making sure that the type is understood and not ready to just change wildly accidentally.
I thought that was part of the point - simplifying refactoring.