Yours is rendered as:

A\n\tsimple\n\t\tformatted\n\t\t\tstring\n\t

If you wanted it without the additional indentation, you’d need to use a function to strip that out. Typescript has dedent which goes in front of the template string, for example. I guess in Zig that’s not necessary which is nice.

Okay I get it now. Formatted multiline string in code without an actual formatting and no string concat.

The problem is that usually you have something like

  fn main() {
    if something {
      print(`A
  simple
  formatted
  string`)
    }
  }

which looks ugly and confusing.