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by antonyt 1261 days ago
I have the same question! I understand parent's criticisms of context objections and logging boilerplate, but I'm not following the "fight against structured logging." What are the alternatives? No logging? Unstructured logging? Why would either of those be better than structured logs?
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While I personally favor no logging, almost everyone who criticizes structured logging would prefer unstructured logging so they can make it someone else's job to restructure it (i.e. index and query it).
It's no work at all to go from regular language to context-free language, and a whole lot more work (parsing) to go the other way.