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Re:Circle – A C++ compiler with compile-time imperative meta... by smt88 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:31AM (#23088387)
The intro text is not detailed enough to tell me whether I want to click on any of those.

How hard is it to write a one-sentence explanation of what a project is that doesn't involve ninjas?

Re:Circle – A C++ compiler with compile-time imperative meta... by asdf_snar on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @09:57AM (#23090962)
From the abstract,

"Circle is a compiler that extends C++17 for new introspection, reflection and compile-time execution. An integrated interpreter allows the developer to execute any function during source translation. Compile-time flavors of control flow statements assist in generating software programmatically. The configuration-oriented programming paradigm captures some of the conveniences of dynamic languages in a statically-typed environment, helping separate a programmer's high-level goals from the low-level code and allowing teams to more effectively reason about their software."

While I appreciate your qualm, respectfully I think that no matter how it were introduced, someone would've quibbled. "You should be straightforward", "you should be more detailed", "you should have more ninjas". There's no win. The solution is to hope the readers you care about will be adventurous enough to make two clicks.