The Year is 2022 and the Standard is C++20; what is your preferred way to do Text I/O?

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  • tinyformat

    Minimal, type safe printf replacement library for C++

    • 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.

  • AnyAny

    C++17 library for comfortable and efficient dynamic polymorphism

    • https://github.com/kelbon/AnyAny (guide how to create any_stream in few seconds)

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  • scnlib

    scanf for modern C++

    • I had a user enum like enum class Color {Red, Green, Blue}; that I wanted to add serialization support for. Following the docs (https://scnlib.readthedocs.io/), after some tweaks I arrived at the following:

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