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Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?
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If you write to a text (as opposed to binary) stream, \n produces \n or \r\n (or \r if old enough) depending on platform just fine.
Nobody should be using C++ anyway, but plenty of languages have silly system newline constants, which do nothing useful.
Why should no one be using c++?
It's memory unsafe and it's syntax is indistinguishable from the runes which summon cthulu.
I think the memory stuff is pretty good nowadays. I'm sure I saw modern C++ can have a garbage collector. And the syntax is only runelike until you learn it, like any language really. As an industry C# developer I've recently taken up C++ as a hobby to better learn the workings of low level code and I've been enjoying it so far.
c# has lovely syntax and languages like it and python are pretty readable with basic coding knowledge. C++ if you don't know a symbol there's too many options and the risk of misunderstanding is too high.
I will agree with your claim "if you learn the syntax then you know the syntax" but I don't find this valuable.