Having gone from C to C++, there's a stark difference between the communities in what is considered 'readable' i.e. what the future reader is expected to grok.

Having gone from C to C++, there's a stark difference between the communities in what is considered 'readable' i.e. what the future reader is expected to grok. In C-world, ternary-ifs are too spicy and C99 is newfangled. In C++ world, the only reason you'd be pushed away from template metaprogramming is because the standard you're using lets you do it with constexpr.