Looks like the log/slog proposal for adding structured logging to Go’s standard library has been accepted! This also includes support for levels and more complex backend options by allowing developers to implement their own log-record handlers. Something like this has really been missing in the current log package where all you get is an io.Writer and Print method.
From what I’ve seen of the proposal so far it’s a really nice one and might finally make discussions around “which logging library to use” shorter. There was also a long discussion in the GitHub issue about if something like zerolog.Ctx(context.Context) *zerolog.Logger should also be provided which would offer a standardised way to propagate a logger through a context. At this point, this won’t happen. Personally, I would have liked to see something like this but perhaps it might come in the future 🙂
I think I will use one of my pet-projects to give this a try to get a proper opinion about this new addition to the standard library and if I can really replace zero log with it in the long run.
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