I am working on a C++ project and I enjoy it. The bread and butter of C++ is balancing relatively good performance with reasonably acceptable overhead and deve

I am working on a C++ project and I enjoy it. The bread and butter of C++ is balancing relatively good performance with reasonably acceptable overhead and developer time. I was personally tired of re-writing over and over. template <typename Type> struct PerformOperation { static void Op(int&) {} // noop }; template <> struct PerformOperation<float> { static void Op(int& k) { // do something } }; And all of the specific things you're complaining about... well they're in your control. Do you or your company hold a standard for interfaces or memory tenancy? If not, maybe you need one.