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I'm not sure I'd call the design "bad". At the very least it's a product of the design constraints, and I'm not sure there's an obviously better implementation without sacrificing something else. I think separate compilation and monomorphization are the biggest contributors, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was something I was forgetting.
Somewhat related, there was some work in Rust about sharing monomorphized generics across crates, but it appears it was not a universal win at the time[0]. I'm not sure if anything has changed since that point, unfortunately, or if something similar could be applied to C++ somehow.
[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/47317#issuecomment-...
C++ has major flaws that cannot be rectified without serious breaking changes. With that said, Herb has been experimenting with a new cpp frontend with sane defaults [1].
In my opinion, the world is on standby until Anders Hejlsberg feels like tackling a modern, next generation systems language.
[1] https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront
What do you think about Carbon[1]? I am hopeful.
[1] https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang