Note that {fmt} provides a lightweight API (`fmt/base.h`) with a superset of `printf` functionality and optimized for build speed (https://vitaut.net/posts/2024

Note that {fmt} provides a lightweight API (`fmt/base.h`) with a superset of `printf` functionality and optimized for build speed (https://vitaut.net/posts/2024/faster-cpp-compile-times/ https://vitaut.net/posts/2024/faster-cpp-compile-times/) and binary size (https://vitaut.net/posts/2024/binary-size/ https://vitaut.net/posts/2024/binary-size/) through type erasure. Variadic templates, while OK in simple cases, won't scale for more realistic ones (especially once you start adding support for more types) and won't work even for basic things like positional arguments.