> I'd argue that, for future APIs, we don't export variadic ones. These are
> generally just for convinience. But plugins can easily do their own string
> formatting and give us the result.
Of course it's for convenience. Imagine writing the following line of code
without using any functions with variadic arguments:
```c
printf("%s is %d", name, age);
```
Even if you did use one variadic function (ex. `g_strdup_printf`), it's still 3
lines of code and a potential source for leaking memory.
> This part of GI is not buggy.
Ok, it's not buggy, it's just a missing feature which makes it impossible to
export all of the C API to other languages, thus requiring any bindings to C be
incomplete or rewriting the C API to be less convenient.
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