Why Export Templates Would Be Useful in C++ (2010)
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The article discusses the potential benefits of implementing export templates in C++, and the sole commenter shares their experience with the feature's absence.
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Nowadays the approach to this problem would be a mix of modules and extern templates, stored in binary libraries, even if not all major compilers are fully there yet.