There is a very, very interesting C++ library, which supports zippers and all other kinds of magic iterator adapters, filters, and so on: the ranges library. It is inspired by the Boost ranges library, and for some time, it looked like it would find its way into C++17, but unfortunately, we will have to wait for the next standard. The reason why this is so unfortunate is that it will vigorously improve the possibilities of writing expressive and fast code in C++ by composing complex functionality from generic and simple blocks of code.

There are some very simple examples in its documentation:

1. Calculating the sum of the squares of all numbers from 1 to 10:

      const int sum = accumulate(view::ints(1)
                               | view::transform([](int i){return i*i;})
                               | view::take(10), 0);

2. Filtering out all uneven numbers from a numeric vector, and transforming the rest to strings:

      std::vector<int> v {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10};
      
      auto rng = v | view::remove_if([](int i){return i % 2 == 1;})
                   | view::transform([](int i){return std::to_string(i);});
      
      // rng == {"2"s,"4"s,"6"s,"8"s,"10"s};

If you are interested and can't wait for the next C++ standard, have a look at the ranges documentation at https://ericniebler.github.io/range-v3/.