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by acdha 4258 days ago
It's not thousands of hours with a better-defined format than free-form text, which is obviously the case for journald. Doing that for a single format makes sense for something which would be as heavily used as system logs – it's not like people haven't spend crazy amounts of time writing syslog parsers or other hassles which go away with a structured format.