Agreed that it's a personal preference. If you geniunely have a standalone function, like print_type shown here, then std::visit seems roughly even with std::ge

Agreed that it's a personal preference. If you geniunely have a standalone function, like print_type shown here, then std::visit seems roughly even with std::get_if to me (but I'd tend to use the latter for consistency with my other code). std::visit would clearly come out ahead if you had some sort of complex nested variant and you called out to other visitors. get_if is clearly ahead IMO if you're using a variant in passing in a broader function, and especially if you when you want to use control flow (if you return in an if branch you return from the wider function).