I feel it’s worth giving credit to Python f-strings in that case. They blew my mind in terms of convenience vs printf.

Python has a few cool things like that. List comprehension blows my mind at how elegant it is.

Agreed. Same with dict, set and generator comprehensions. I wish more languages included that feature.

In addition to Python format strings: Javascript template strings:

`I am ${variable.foo} ${variable.bar}.` - Life changing!

Wait til you try scanf

What year did reaction happen? I spent my entire life taking it for granted, not realizing that it indeed is a little interpreted language in print statements.

For many of us it was in 2015 when Control-Flow Bending: On the Effectiveness of Control-Flow Integrity was presented at USENIX proving printf is turing complete. https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical...