Feature Request: BasicWriter that writes to stdout

[marton78]

Hi,

it would be great if fmt could fill this omission, it could then be used as a replacement of iostreams.

[vitaut]

Thanks for the suggestion. The formatting functions such as fmt::print already support output to stdout, but I agree that it would be nice to have similar functionality in the write API. The main issue that has to be solved is buffer management. Since fmt::BasicWriter already uses the output buffer, the FILE's one is probably redundant and file descriptors should be used instead.

[vitaut]

Since BasicWriter is mainly an optimization, it will likely be superseded by the format API with compile-time handling of format strings (#546). It might still be there for compatibility reasons but there is little reason to extend it to support writing to files, etc.