Why we wrote Herodotus
We’ve written Herodotus1 as a lightweight logger to solve some very specific problems we had in our tests, but we don’t think they are unique to us so we’re going to share with you what we have done and why. Logging to the standard output and the main problem we faced The problem we are trying to solve is one of readability. All good logs are human readable, as when something has gone wrong to the point of a human needing to look in the logs and piece together what has happened we don’t want to make that more difficult than is needed....