Will C++ ever get the possibility to just print the contents of an object like Rust does (with the automatic debug trait)?
I am tired of writing my own print functions for random objects when debugging because the API developers did not bother to override the <<operator. One of those things that are hard to accept when coming back from Rust.
Not until we get reflection. And reflection efforts seem to be at an impasse, so I don’t imagine we will see it for a few years at least.
I will add, though, that I’ve found copilot to be very handy when it comes to generating formatting. Last week I used it while writing fmt::formatter specialisations for a library with 50 structs, some having over 20 members. Writing all of them took about 10 minutes. I dare say the same would hold for operator<< overloads.
The fact that Rust also has a pretty-print("{:#}")[1] a single character away is also really convenient. When you're working with JSON or debug printing types it's nice to be able to format that without reaching for external tools.
