How to make using C++ suck less

printf.cpp

void StreamPrintf(std::ostream stream, const char *format, ...) {
  char buffer[1024];
  va_list args;
  memset(buffer, 0, sizeof buffer);
  va_start(args, format);
  vsnprintf(buffer, (sizeof buffer) - 1, format, args);
  va_end(args);
  stream << buffer;
}

Good job on making C++ worse than C in just 9 lines of code.

lol! Making C++ worse than C doesn't require any code at all!

(I think I wrote this way back when I was needing to print a bunch of lines containing both base-10 and hex values. "0x%08x: %d", a, b was, and always will be, far more convenient than ... << "0x" << std::setfill('0') << std::setw(8) << std::hex << a << std::dec << " " << b)