This is why C++20 decided to double-down on stream formatting and fudging in printf-like support with std::format and other functions in the new <format> header. Because things can always get worse.

That's a huge improvement over C, and C++ in particular. Dynamic features in a compiled language A common dividing line between programming languages is how they turn high-level code into instructions ...

C++ overtook C in the top three of the TIOBE Programming Language Community Index this month, a significant shakeup following gradual growth of C++ and gradual decline of C over the last year.