That's part of why it's such a nightmare to parse. The GCC C++ parser is over a megabyte of ASCII text. Think about it: it takes over a million characters to f

That's part of why it's such a nightmare to parse. The GCC C++ parser is over a megabyte of ASCII text. Think about it: it takes over a million characters to figure out how to parse C++ code. This complexity is partially because there are so many ways to do the same thing. All auto parameters, or make it a template? `if constexpr` or `std::enable_if_t`? Macros for generic programming or variadic variadic template templates? Overloading or specialization? I love C++, and backwards compatibility is something that's been valuable for it, but it certainly comes with its challenges.