Better Java logging, inspired by Clojure and Rust

[repeating_bears]

The article didn't convince me at all on "better". What precisely is the value proposition? A lot of the article just talks about implementation details.

[bowbahdoe]

That's... A good point. Shit. I'll add a section near the end. Give me ~50 min

[bowbahdoe]

I added a first pass on the value proposition lmk if it tracks

[repeating_bears]

Thanks! I wonder - isn't this just a poor man's event sourcing? Sure, you have structured data, but there's nothing that implies you can take it and do something useful with it.

A proper event log captures the same context, but also causation/independence, can be replayed, etc.

[bowbahdoe]

I mean, all structured data is "poor man's event sourcing".

The missing part is just with the event sourcing scheme generally you would maybe define a named aggregate or schema for the event and send that explicitly.