C++ templates are a nightmare, because it is also a compile-time macro system. The cryptic, giant error messages from forgetting a > were legendary. Maybe this

C++ templates are a nightmare, because it is also a compile-time macro system. The cryptic, giant error messages from forgetting a > were legendary. Maybe this has improved, I haven't used C++ in a long time. Java by contrast has a greatly simplified generic system; Scala improves on that with robust type inference, making generics pretty trivial to write and use.