: skip to main skip to sidebar On Software and Languages Speaking up from the Qt ghetto . on C++ , Java , Perl , Python , Haskell Erlang Systems and Processes Tuesday 27 September 2022 Guest post An Extraterrestrial Guide to C++20 Text Formatting This is a guest post which was written by Victor Zverovich aka vzverovich for C++ Stories and which I liked so much not least because of the funny S . Lem references whose big fan I used to be in my time that I asked for permission to repost it here . And so , you can read it here including new , fresh pictures from Stanislaw Lem's works . nbsp My take on std : format you can say what you want about C++20, but it allowed to solve the problems of both iostreams and printf by reusing their strenghts and transcending their limitations the original