All the reasons to go header-only are superficial, as is the counter to the compile time problem with thorough templating of every function. This isn't about minor pros and cons, it's about not breaking stuff.
One of the great things about separate declaration and implementation is exactly that, the latter is totally shielded from impact and from impacting anything else. To argue for header-only is to claim that the implementation does not and will never cause any conflict with anything else ever, which is pretentious bullshit.
Sqlite gets it right - they produce amalgamated source, but it's one header file and one source file. The header looks suspiciously large, but that's only because it's 99% comment text to document it.
Some libraries are designed header-only but have a separated version available or a script to produce that, so they get a pass, at least it's not forced header-only.
Then we have shit like Eigen. Nice actual library, but good god damn have they caught the gay header-only HIV. It's just too much time to hit an unexpected compile error for which the resolution involves editing an included library, in this case just to move implementation out of the headers.
For anyone who needs an analogy, the problem with header-only libraries is the same as the problem with open-plan offices.
This is how you represent numbers as a series of light switches. The number of "bits" is how many digits you see on the counter. For example, old keyboards used to have a ribbon with 8 wires representing an 8-bit number, or (alternatively) a specific combination of the 8 different "switches", can actually represent one of 256 different and unique "keys" pressed on the keyboard. These unique "keys" would represent 0, 1, ... !, @, #, ... a, b, c ... A, B, C ... INS, RETURN, ... etc.
These degenerates hide in plain sight and are able to operate freely by employing the deceptive word salad gobbleygook of academia, which acts aa a cocoon-like protective guild that will lend credence to their creepiness and legitimize it in the name of science. Who would have though that “Wonder Woman” was inspired by the sexual dalliances of this creep and his equally disgusting wife? I can’t even directly blame this on Jews.
The Senhores of the ma’amad [the congregation’s lay governing board] having long known of the evil opinions and acts of Baruch de Spinoza, have endeavored by various means and promises to turn him from his evil ways. However, having failed to make him mend his wicked ways, and, on the contrary, daily receiving more and more serious information about the abominable heresies which he practiced and taught and about his monstrous deeds, and having for this numerous trustworthy witnesses who have deposed and borne witness to this effect in the presence of the said Espinoza, they became convinced of the truth of this matter. After all of this has been investigated in the presence of the honorable hakhamim [“wise men,” or rabbis], they have decided, with the [rabbis’] consent, that the said Espinoza should be excommunicated and expelled from the people of Israel. By decree of the angels and by the command of the holy men, we excommunicate, expel, curse and damn Baruch de Espinoza, with the consent of God, Blessed be He, and with the consent of the entire holy congregation, and in front of these holy scrolls with the 613 precepts which are written therein; cursing him with the excommunication with which Joshua banned Jericho and with the curse which Elisha cursed the boys and with all the castigations which are written in the Book of the Law. Cursed be he by day and cursed be he by night; cursed be he when he lies down and cursed be he when he rises up. Cursed be he when he goes out and cursed be he when he comes in. The Lord will not spare him, but the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law. But you that cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.
These leaves look terrific. They are so big. Even if I don't get any button-squash I'll still feel rather pleased as they make the garden look fruitful and productive!
No matter how bad you think Covid policies were, they were intended to be worse.
Consider the vaccine passports alone. Six cities were locked down to include only the vaccinated in public indoor places. They were New York City, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Seattle. The plan was to enforce this with a vaccine passport. It broke. Once the news leaked that the shot didn’t stop infection or transmission, the planners lost public support and the scheme collapsed.
It was undoubtedly planned to be permanent and nationwide if not worldwide. Instead, the scheme had to be dialed back.
Features of the CDC’s edicts did incredible damage. It imposed the rent moratorium. It decreed the ridiculous “six feet of distance” and mask mandates. It forced Plexiglas as the interface for commercial transactions. It implied that mail-in balloting must be the norm, which probably flipped the election. It delayed the reopening as long as possible. It was sadistic.
