1) Template meta-programming is vastly safer than preprocessor macros. Then, today you have constant expressions, which overlap with some of the use-cases of te

1) Template meta-programming is vastly safer than preprocessor macros. Then, today you have constant expressions, which overlap with some of the use-cases of template meta-programming. In any case, template meta-programming is not strictly required to get things done in C++. Multiple inheritance can be caught by static analysis. 2) Just like you can polyfill your code, malicious input can poison your prototypes.