tinyformat VS AnyAny

printf has some pretty serious security implications. When I want more complicated text printing options than what is easy or terse in iostream then I use the tinyformat library.

The usual way I do I/O is via combining C++ stringstremas with either tinyformat or via an implementation of p0117 "variadic to_[basic_]string, depending on the particular need.

Haven't been able to make it work with MSVC 2012 (the earliest Windows-side compiler I need to support). I myself use tinyformat instead.

However, not all is lost. While there are libraries like {fmt} I don't pay attention to them because they are far away into The Future and unusable with my requirements (C++03 support at the earliest, work reasons). Most newfangled libs I've seen are intended for Compilers of the Future, for C++20/C++23 and the like, and with that among other reasons are not generic enough for me. Instead I just use tinyformat that lays on top of both and bridges them, not to mention the biggest sell that is rrtaining the POSIX style printf notation (why didn't {fmt} go with that is still a mystery to me).

https://github.com/kelbon/AnyAny trait(add, void(int), self.add(args...));

i dont know what he means, but with this type erasure library you can have non virtual interface and still use dynamic polymorphism with those types, so you dont need choose *do i need to do this type polymorphic* etc

There are also invoking from tuple and curring (just an example of technique)https://github.com/kelbon/AnyAny/blob/main/examples/functional_paradigm.hpp

As for my example containers: https://github.com/kelbon/AnyAny/blob/main/include/data_parallel_vector.hpp

variant_swarm - container which behaves as set of std::variant, but with much faster visit operation and operation for getting view to all values of type T. It short, it just stores all types separatelly and supports operations visit, view, also you can change underlying containers for Ts..., it is std::vector by default https://github.com/kelbon/AnyAny/blob/main/include/variant_swarm.hpp

Its part of my library for working with polymorphic types.

Good idea selling Rust from behind enemy lines soldier! My god, your readme doesn't even mention Rust, wonderful!

https://github.com/kelbon/AnyAny here you can see how it implemented, for example