(Probably annoying by now) std::cout or std::printf?

printf stands for print format

or the og spell it printfffffffffffffeeee

It's on the stdio.h header which is the std input output lib for C and it's the standard way of printing to the console using C, but since C++ still maintains C backwards compatibility so it's still there and to make it easier to access so they include it in the std namespace i guess.

There's not much a difference to be considered should I use this or that. Pretty sure printf is just printing string to conout using placeholder formatting like

printf("Hello, %s", "Bob"); %s for string or %d for digit or int stuff so that the %s is replaced by "Bob" or whatever I can't explain really well icl

Doesn't matter afaik, I mean it doesn't affect your program stuff that much so yeah stop 😶

Not really a wrong answer here. You can use both but you might want to use std::cout just because it's intended to be used in C++ and printf generally isn't.

std::cout is safe whilst printf may not be.

printf uses C runtime formatting which is notorious for causing some of the biggest bugs in history and causing billions of dollars in damage, outputting a string in printf is dangerous, whilst formatting them through a stream is not.

I use printf("yes") because I don't need weird-looking arrows in C++ that may look out of place

anyways it's probably better to use std::cout instead of printf() but I've never really had any issues with either so you can decide I guess

Afaik type safety; std::cout is 100% better, though printf() has better format flexibility
Reasons vary on what you are doing, if you want to format stuff easily it's recommended to use printf() but anything else should be handled with std::cout. Issues can occur with printf() like a data type doesn't match in printf() which causes a runtime error (afaik)

In an Object Oriented Approach or whatever it's better to use std::cout because it allows chaining and customizability of its behaviour (I think, but not sure)

printf is a C function, can be used in C++ and has an entry in the standard library for some reason I'm unaware of. The difference between cout and printf is that cout doesn't require type specification with wildcards, whereas the latter does.

In C++23, there is the print header which iirc could be used like this

#include <print>
#include <cstdint> 

auto main() -> std::int32_t {
    std::println("Hello, World!");

    return 0;
}

Though right now it's not even adopted by gcc or clang yet

std::cout cause yes

I recommend you to use printf, as it is faster, and simpler to use.

printf(char *a, ...);

The argument a represents a pointer to the first character of a string that contains the format (example: "Text: %s\nNumber: %d\n");

The argument(s) ... represents either pointers to first character in string that represents `%s`, or just a number, or some other value...