its also a death trap in winrt when combined with templates in the way they do. debugging that typoing a callback signature results in nothing happening in asy

its also a death trap in winrt when combined with templates in the way they do. debugging that typoing a callback signature results in nothing happening in asynchronous code controlled by the ppl task library is a massive pain for even an experienced programmer. auto is nice in principle, but it is introduced in such a powerful and dangerous environment that there are subtle gotchas in real world use cases. including targetting a major platform by using its system libraries. programming is about thinking, not typing and programmer convenience. i don't enjoy auto for that reason either... if it were to save me time it would be little. i find using the stl algorithms and avoiding the nasty stl iterator pattern like the plague means the problem you describe just doesn't exist for me as a day-to-day case.