I'm torn over these mini dsls that creep into code like printf and regex formatting strings. They are so useful, but so often a cause of bugs. Any solution to

I'm torn over these mini dsls that creep into code like printf and regex formatting strings. They are so useful, but so often a cause of bugs. Any solution to then I've seen like doing them entirely in code (c++ io streams or many of the various regex builders) seen to overshoot too far in the safety direction and destroy their quickness and usability. There has to be a better way to print stuff out that is useable in languages like C and Java without blowing the budget on code length, object creation, etc. I once once wrote a zero garbage logging library for high performance java code and i just defaulted to essentially copying into a buffer.