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A modern formatting library for C++

by Victor Zverovich

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

Come learn about the intricacies of C++ formatting, from stdio to iostream to the new standard proposal P0645R0: Text Formatting. The new proposal combines variadic templates with a Python-like format string syntax and is designed for performance, extensibility, and safety. It is based on the popular fmt library that has been successfully used in numerous projects in such diverse areas as gaming, mathematical optimization, autonomous vehicles, databases, logging libraries and more.