- If you map out the entire system, and understand how all the pieces fit together, you can: make something simpler that fulfills reqs/does the same exact thing; use template metaprogramming to generate the source code for you, instead of writing it by hand
The only issue is very few people will have the skills or the patience to sit down and try to understand metaprogramming. So you won't be able to take advantage of it in most business use-cases (i.e. won't easily be able to find another cog to work on it), despite how powerful it is.
It's like why more people don't work with K (or functional langs, etc.): it's not a simple procedural or OO language, so it's harder to learn -- and harder to get started with.
- If you map out the entire system, and understand how all the pieces fit together, you can: make something simpler that fulfills reqs/does the same exact thing; use template metaprogramming to generate the source code for you, instead of writing it by hand
The only issue is very few people will have the skills or the patience to sit down and try to understand metaprogramming. So you won't be able to take advantage of it in most business use-cases (i.e. won't easily be able to find another cog to work on it), despite how powerful it is.
It's like why more people don't work with K (or functional langs, etc.): it's not a simple procedural or OO language, so it's harder to learn -- and harder to get started with.