On Mon, 20 May 2024 at 18:23, Henrik Nyhammer via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> And without it you're left with resorting to 3rd-parties as soon as you
> want to do something slightly more fancy in your console application, which
> is a small hassle in itself, and the 3rd-party library may be implemented
> in a way that does not work well with a lot of consoles out there anyway,
> like using ANSI escape sequences.
>

Without expressing an opinion on the rest of the proposal, "using 3rd party
libraries is a hassle" is a poor reason to add something to the standard
library. By that argument, *everything* should be in the standard.