Versus the port: https://cdn.neowin.com/news/images/uploaded/2026/08/17861716...

[0] though GNU libc does let you extend it: https://sourceware.org/glibc/manual/latest/html_mono/libc.ht...

Because these are used for locale-specific configuration data. `"This is here: {x+y} blah"` on the other hand isn’t a string (mere data), it’s a program, because you can have arbitrary expressions inside the braces. You don’t want to repeat the `x+y` in each localization file.

I have nothing against ergonomic program constructs for composing strings, but please let’s not confuse such program constructs with mere string literals.

“The problem, and it is a moral problem, with which we are here faced is very close to one of the great problems of slavery. Let us grant that slavery is bad because it is cruel. It is, however, self-contradictory, and for a reason which is quite different. We wish a slave to be intelligent, to be able to assist us in the carrying out of our tasks. However, we also wish him to be subservient. Complete subservience and complete intelligence do not go together. How often in ancient times the clever Greek philosopher slave of a less intelligent Roman slaveholder must have dominated the actions of his master rather than obeyed his wishes! Similarly, if the machines become more and more efficient and operate at a higher and higher psychological level, the catastrophe foreseen by Butler of the dominance of the machine comes nearer and nearer.”

I used https://www.textfixer.com/tools/remove-line-breaks.php.

That’s basically what “pari passu” means.

I’m more annoyed by products/companies choosing names that are just common words.