Iostream's generally massiveness is annoying me. I mean, like, something with stdio is 16 kbs. If you do the same thing with iostream, it compiles to 500 kbs. That's not cool

My immediate thought following that is to get cozy with stdio (which, like, has far more functionality than iostream anyway, from what I can tell); however, afaik, that's not too friendly with the STL, or C++-style strings. So I was wondering if there was an i/o lib that could interface with the STL properly, yet also not be... as utterly bloated as iostream is.