{fmt} was created on this day 13 years ago with this thoughtful commit: https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/commit/ec27d5d
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@vitaut every time I use your library, I'm wondering why it hasn't been written earlier. I mean, really, everyone knew that iostreams were slow and ugly. And even pretended that exploiting a shift operator for output was a clever design decision. Meanwhile, Python's str.format() has been introduced in 2008...
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@sevagribov Variadic templates were only introduced in C++11 so it was difficult to provide a sensible API before that. {fmt} emulated variadics for a bit and it was a PITA.
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@vitaut well actually GCC supports variadic templates since version 4.4, which was released in 2009. But, anyway, I guess, you also had a similar feeling, that even in 2012 C++ is missing some basic functionality. Thanks for adding it :)
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@vitaut @sevagribov oh yes Boost also emulated variadics template arguments (for tuples) and it is a huge pain. [I think that is still in use really; I was just reducing some code that used boost::tuples last week].
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